David S. Kirk is an American sociologist and professor of sociology in the Department of Sociology and Nuffield College, Oxford.[2] Before joining the Oxford faculty in 2015, he was an associate professor in the department of sociology at the University of Texas at Austin.[3] His research interests have included the effects of high concentrations of former prisoners in a neighborhood on their probability of reoffending,[4] and the effects of Uber on rates of drunk driving in the United States.[5]
David Kirk | |
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| Education | Vanderbilt University University of Chicago |
| Awards | 2010 James F. Short Jr. Distinguished Article Award from the Crime, Law, and Deviance Section of the American Sociological Association |
| Scientific career | |
| Fields | Sociology |
| Institutions | University of Oxford's Nuffield College University of Texas at Austin |
| Thesis | Unraveling the neighborhood and school effects on youth behavior (2006) |
| Academic advisors | Robert J. Sampson[1] |
References
edit- ^ Gladwell, Malcolm (24 August 2015). "What Social Scientists Learned from Katrina". The New Yorker. Retrieved 2017-07-21.
- ^ "David Kirk". www.sociology.ox.ac.uk. Retrieved 2017-07-21.
- ^ "David Kirk CV" (PDF).[permanent dead link]
- ^ Kirk, David S. (2015-06-02). "A natural experiment of the consequences of concentrating former prisoners in the same neighborhoods". Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 112 (22): 6943–6948. Bibcode:2015PNAS..112.6943K. doi:10.1073/pnas.1501987112. ISSN 0027-8424. PMC 4460478. PMID 25976097.
- ^ Kelly, Heather (2016-07-29). "Uber doesn't decrease drunk driving, study says". CNNMoney. Retrieved 2017-07-21.
External links
edit- Faculty page
- David Kirk publications indexed by Google Scholar
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