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The Institute for Policy Research
Presentations
and Panelists:
“Crime
and Fear Are Down—But Why?”
Wesley G. Skogan, an expert on crime and policing, has directed most of IPR’s major crime studies over the past two decades. His research encompasses fear of crime, citizen participation in community crime prevention, and victim responses to crime. Since 1993, Skogan has led an evaluation of the Chicago Alternative Policing Strategy program, or CAPS, the nation’s largest experimental community policing initiative. His current projects involve evaluations of I-CLEAR, which gauges the use and impact of information technology in law enforcement in 20 Illinois areas, and Project CeaseFire, an initiative of the Chicago Project for Violence Prevention that aims to reduce violence in targeted areas around the state. The author or editor of four books, Skogan’s most recent book is the edited volume Community Policing: Can It Work? (Thomson/ Wadsworth, 2003), a collection of essays on innovation in policing. His forthcoming book, Police and Community in Chicago: A Tale of Three Cities, will be published by Oxford University Press in 2006. He is an IPR faculty fellow and professor of political science. “Politics
and Promises in the Transformation of Chicago Public Housing”
Mary Pattillo’s interests include race and ethnicity, urban sociology, culture, and qualitative methods. She is currently working on her forthcoming book, Black on the Block: The Politics of Race and Class in the City (University of Chicago Press), which will appear later this year. It examines the simultaneous processes of gentrification and public housing construction in Chicago’s North Kenwood/Oakland area. She also studies the socioeconomic fragility of the black middle class. In her book, Black Picket Fences (University of Chicago Press, 1999), she examines the economic, spatial and cultural forces that impinge upon family maintenance and youth socialization in Groveland, a black middle class neighborhood on Chicago’s South Side. Pattillo is co-editor of Imprisoning America: The Social Costs of Mass Incarceration (Russell Sage, 2004), Arthur Andersen Research and Teaching Professor, IPR faculty associate, and associate professor of sociology and African American studies. “The
Multicultural Metropolis: Neighborhood Diversity and Segregation”
Juan Onésimo Sandoval’s primary research interests cover spatial econometrics and demography, poverty and social welfare, urban sociology and planning, race relations, and transportation policy. His current research projects include transportation for vulnerable populations, neighborhood diversity and residential differentiation, and pan-ethnic diversity. In expanding his project of examining stable, racially diverse neighborhoods, Sandoval is also investigating the ethnic and economic diversity of Asian and Latino populations. The projects are designed to foster a dialogue for a new urban sociology that captures the diversity of social life, social suffering, racial harmony and discord, and urban experience. Sandoval is an IPR faculty fellow and assistant professor of sociology.
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