Jennifer B. Robinson

Position: Assistant Professor
Degree(s): Ph.D., Temple University, 2002
Areas of Research/Interest: Geography and Ecology of Crime, Research Methods, Statistics, Community Intervention in Criminology
Background:
Professor Robinson's research explores questions regarding crime from the perspective of environmental criminology. Her research focuses upon the geography and ecology of crime and uses ecological theory, a number of qualitative and quantitative research techniques, and geographic information systems to explain spatial patterns of crime. Prof. Robinson's most recent research examined the influences of drug free zones in Portland, Oregon upon spatial and temporal patterns of drug sales arrests from 1990-1998. Prior to coming to Northeastern, Prof. Robinson taught in the Department of Criminology at the University of Ottawa (Canada). While working on her doctorate, she was employed by the Crime and Justice Research Institute in Philadelphia on two national-level, federally funded research grants. The first project performed a national evaluation of Drug Courts in the United States. The second project comprised a series of focus groups with drug court participants in six cities across the United States.

Phone: 617.373.3327
Office: 413 Churchill Hall
Email: j.robinson@neu.edu
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Selected Publications:

2003 Robinson, J.; Lawton, B.; Taylor, R., and D. Perkins "Multilevel Longitudinal Impacts of Incivilities: Fear of Crime, Expected Safety, and Block Satisfaction." FORTHCOMING. Journal of Quantitative Criminology. December. (Link)
2001 Goldkamp, J.; White, M.; Robinson, J. "Context and Change: The Evolution of Pioneering Drug Courts in Portland and Las Vegas, (1991-1998)." Law and Policy, 23(2), p.141-170. (Link)
2001 Goldkamp, J.; White, M.; Robinson, J. "Do Drug Courts Really Work?; Getting Inside the Drug Court Black Box." The Journal of Drug Issues, 31(1), p. 27-72. (Link)