It’s Episode 77 of The Criminology Academy podcast! On today’s episode, we have Professor Charles Lanfear on the podcast. Jose speaks with him about theories of community violence, context and gun violence, and reproducibility in criminology!
Charles Lanfear is an Assistant Professor at the Institute of Criminology in the University of Cambridge. He was previously a Research Fellow at Nuffield College in the University of Oxford after receiving his PhD from the University of Washington in 2021. His primary research focuses on communities, crime, and social control and has been published in Criminology and the Annual Review of Criminology. Charles is currently researching gun carrying and gun violence over the life-course as a member of the Project on Human Development in Chicago Neighborhoods research team. The team’s first paper on life course exposures to gun violence was published last month in JAMA Network Open. Charles is also an advocate for open science and teaches courses on research design, quantitative methods, and programming for social scientists.
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Get in touch with Charles:
University of Cambridge // cl948 AT cam.ac.uk // Personal Website // GitHub Profile
These are the articles authored by Charles that were discussed in this episode of The Crim Academy:
Lanfear, C. C., Matsueda, R. L., & Beach, L. R. (2020). Broken windows, informal social control, and crime: assessing causality in empirical studies. Annual review of criminology, 3, 97-120. [Article Link].
Lanfear, C. C., Bucci, R., Kirk, D. S., & Sampson, R. J. (2023). Inequalities in exposure to firearm violence by race, sex, and birth cohort from childhood to age 40 years, 1995-2021. JAMA network open, 6(5). [Article Link].
Another article that might be of interest authored by Charles:
Lanfear, C. C. (2022). Collective efficacy and the built environment. Criminology, 60(2), 370-396. [Article Link].