David Kirk (sociologist)
David S. Kirk is an American sociologist and associate professor of sociology at Nuffield College, Oxford, where he is also director of research for the department of sociology.[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
- 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).
- 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. Lay summary – Science (22 May 2015).
- Kelly, Heather (2016-07-29). "Uber doesn't decrease drunk driving, study says". CNNMoney. Retrieved 2017-07-21.
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