Professor of Criminology, Law and Society, Urban Planning and Public Policy and Sociology
Ph.D., University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
(949) 824-8247
hippj@uci.edu
3311 Social Ecology II
Department:
Criminology, Law and Society
Specializations:
community context of crime, social networks, household decisions and neighborhood change, spatial models, research methods
John R. Hipp is a Professor in the department of Criminology, Law and Society at the University of California Irvine. His research interests focus on how neighborhoods change over time, how that change both affects and is affected by neighborhood crime, and the role networks and institutions play in that change. He approaches these questions using quantitative methods as well as social network analysis. He currently co-directs the Irvine Lab for the Study of Space and Crime (ILSSC) with Charis Kubrin. Here’s a presentation describing the ILSSC. He has guided the dissertations of several students who are now faculty at various universities. He recently released the book The Spatial Scale of Crime.
Professor Hipp’s substantive research agenda focuses on the agents of change within neighborhoods and communities. This work has both spatial and temporal components. The spatial component views processes that affect crime at various scales from the micro units of street blocks up to larger metropolitan areas. He uses cutting edge spatial techniques to address these issues. You can see a recent lecture he gave on this topic in the SMAART seminar series here. The temporal component views both short-term (over hours) and long-term (over years) change in these spatial locations, and the consequences for these areas. His work also has a multi-level component, as he studies how the decisions of households within these spatial areas have consequences for how the ecology changes. His work has focused on how the networks of relations within a neighborhood can impact these civic involvement and residential mobility decisions. One of his projects studies the spatial distribution of residents’ social networks, an NSF funded project with Carter Butts (see the Center for Networks & Relational Analysis).
Professor Hipp is Director of the Metropolitan Futures Initiative (MFI), which is an interdisciplinary project that has a commitment to build communities that are economically vibrant, environmentally sustainable, and socially just by partnering Social Ecology’s world class, boundary-crossing scholarship with expertise throughout Southern California. The MFI releases regular Regional Progress Reports that are available on the webpage.
This is a video describing some of Professor Hipp’s work. Here is a video of a recent presentation on The spatial scale of crime.
The ILSSC releases an annual Southern California Regional Crime Report.
Various dimensions of the entire Southern California region are studied in installments of the Metropolitan Futures Initiative (MFI) Report Series
Report on the Orange Crush: inequality in Orange County