It’s our first official episode! This week we speak with Professors Eric Baumer and Min Xie about their work on immigration, crime reporting within immigrant communities, and crime trends in the United States over time.
Eric is a Professor and Head of the Department of Sociology and Criminology at the Pennsylvania State University. His work explores demographic, temporal and spatial patterns of violence, the mobilization of law, and the application of criminal justice sanctions. Among many other journals, Eric has published in Criminology, Journal of Quantitative Criminology, Justice Quarterly, American Sociological Review, and American Journal of Sociology.
Min is a Professor and the Director of Graduate Studies in the Department of Criminology and Criminal Justice at University of Maryland-College Park. Her research interests include theories of criminal victimization; race/ethnicity, gender, and immigration; multilevel and longitudinal models; and spatial data analysis. Among many other journals, Min has published in Criminology, Journal of Quantitative Criminology, Journal of Research in Crime and Delinquency, and the Annual Review of Criminology.
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Get in touch with Eric and Min:
Eric: https://sociology.la.psu.edu/people/epb5167 // epbaumer AT psu.edu
Min: https://ccjs.umd.edu/facultyprofile/xie/min // mxie AT umd.edu
This is the article co-authored by Min and Eric that was discussed in this episode of The Crim Academy:
Xie, M., & Baumer, E. P. (2019). Neighborhood immigrant concentration and violent crime reporting to the police: A multilevel analysis of data from the National Crime Victimization Survey. Criminology, 57(2), 237-267.
To access the article, please click here.
If you are interested in other articles on this same line of work authored by Min and Eric, please click below:
Xie, M., & Baumer, E. P. (2019). Crime victims’ decisions to call the police: Past research and new directions. Annual Review of Criminology. [article link]
Xie, M., & Baumer, E. P. (2018). Reassessing the breadth of the protective benefit of immigrant neighborhoods: A multilevel analysis of violence risk by race, ethnicity, and labor market stratification. Criminology, 56(2), 302-332. [article link]
Other organizations/depositories mentioned in this episode:
TRAC Immigration at Syracuse University: https://trac.syr.edu/
Migration Policy Institute: https://www.migrationpolicy.org/
The Criminology Academy and Professor Min Xie featured on the UMD Website.