Great American City: Chicago & the Enduring Neighborhood Effect

Presented by the USC Sol Price Center for Social Innovation and METRANS.

Robert Sampson demonstrates the powerfully enduring impact of place on a wide variety of social phenomena, including crime, health, civic engagement, home foreclosures, teen birth altruism, leadership networks, and immigration. Join us to discuss the implications of this research for revitalizing neighborhoods portrayed in his book, Great American City: Chicago and the Enduring Neighborhood Effect.

Robert J. Sampson is a Henry Ford II Professor of the Social Sciences at Harvard University and Director of the Boston Area Research Initiative. Sampson was elected to the National Academy of Sciences in 2008 and is a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, the American Society of Criminology, the American Philosophical Society, and the American Academy of Political and Social Science. He served as President of the American Society of Criminology in 2011-2012 and in June 2011 he and his colleague John Laub received eh Stockholm Prize in Criminology. Professor Sampson's research and teaching cover a variety of areas including crime, disorder, the life course, neighborhood effects, civic engagement, inequality, "econometrics," and the social structure of the city.