Karen F. Parker

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Karen F. Parker
Education University of North Carolina-Wilmington, North Carolina State University
Awards2008 Coramae Richey Mann Award from the Division on People of Color and Crime of the American Society of Criminology
Scientific career
Fields Sociology, criminology
Institutions University of Delaware, University of Florida
Thesis The effects of structural conditions on racially disaggregated homicide rates  (1996)
Doctoral advisor Patricia McCall
Website sites.google.com/site/karenfparkerprof/home

Karen Faye Parker is an American sociologist and criminologist known for her research on urban violence. [1] [2] She is a professor of sociology and criminology at the University of Delaware, where she has worked since 2007. She has also been a research associate at the University of Michigan's National Poverty Center since 2007, and was formerly a professor at the University of Florida before joining the faculty of the University of Delaware.

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References

  1. Misra, Tanvi (16 March 2015). "How Black-Owned Businesses Help Reduce Youth Violence". Bloomberg.
  2. White, Mercedes (5 May 2013). "Let them work: Men's work programs give families and communities a leg up". Deseret News. Archived from the original on May 9, 2013.