David Kirk (sociologist)

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David Kirk
Education Vanderbilt University
University of Chicago
Awards2010 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]

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]

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References

  1. Gladwell, Malcolm (24 August 2015). "What Social Scientists Learned from Katrina". The New Yorker. Retrieved 2017-07-21.
  2. "David Kirk". www.sociology.ox.ac.uk. Retrieved 2017-07-21.
  3. "David Kirk CV" (PDF).[ permanent dead link ]
  4. 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.
  5. Kelly, Heather (2016-07-29). "Uber doesn't decrease drunk driving, study says". CNNMoney. Retrieved 2017-07-21.