John Robert Hipp is an American
criminologist
Criminology (from Latin , "accusation", and Ancient Greek , ''-logia'', from λόγος ''logos'' meaning: "word, reason") is the study of crime and deviant behaviour. Criminology is an interdisciplinary field in both the behavioural and so ...
and professor in the department of Criminology, Law and Society at the
University of California, Irvine
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(UC Irvine). He is also the co-director, with
Charis Kubrin, of the Irvine Lab for the Study of Space and Crime (ILSSC), as well as the director of UC Irvine's Metropolitan Futures Initiative. He has conducted multiple studies of unemployment and crime rates in and around
Irvine, California
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, finding remarkably low rates of both there. His research has also shown that crime in
Los Angeles
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tends to be intraracial, despite the fact that several exceptions received considerable media attention, and that immigration has not led to an increase in crime rates in
Southern California
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.
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Living people
American criminologists
University of California, Irvine faculty
University of California, Santa Cruz alumni
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill alumni
Year of birth missing (living people)
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