Associate Member

Dave is Professor of Sociology and joined the Department of Sociology and Nuffield College in 2015. At Nuffield, Dave is the Director of the Centre for Social Investigation as well as the Nuffield Undergraduate Scholars Institute (NUSI). He is also a faculty affiliate of the Oxford QStep Centre. Dave received his Ph.D. in sociology from the University of Chicago.

Dave's research agenda is primarily organised around three inter-related themes: the causes and consequences of police misconduct, solutions to criminal recidivism, and the causes and consequences of gun violence. His new book, Home Free (Oxford University Press 2020), traces the effect of residential displacement among the formerly incarcerated in the wake of Hurricane Katrina. Another project, funded by the National Collaborative on Gun Violence Research, is designed to examine the correlates and consequences of gun violence over the life course over the past 25 years, a period of dramatic social change in the US. Dave's research has appeared in American Journal of Sociology, American Sociological Review, Criminology, and The Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

Research Areas: Justice, Demography, Life Course, Criminology, Quantitative Methods.

 

Publications

Thursday, 24 October 2024
Lanfear, C. and Kirk, D. (2024) “The promise and perils of the sharing economy: The impact of Airbnb lettings on crime”, Criminology [Preprint].
Monday, 01 April 2024
Rahal, C., Verhagen, M. and Kirk, D. (2024) “The rise of machine learning in the academic social sciences”, AI & SOCIETY, 39(2), pp. 799–801.
Monday, 01 May 2023
Lanfear, C. et al. (2023) “Inequalities in Exposure to Firearm Violence by Race, Sex, and Birth Cohort From Childhood to Age 40 Years, 1995-2021.”, JAMA network open, 6(5), p. e2312465.
Tuesday, 04 October 2022
Kirk, D. (2022) “Neighborhoods’ peril for the formerly incarcerated”, Contexts, 21(3), pp. 34–39.
Wednesday, 07 September 2022
Rad, A., Kirk, D. and Jones, W. (2022) “Police unionism, accountability, and misconduct”, Annual Review of Criminology, 6, pp. 181–203.
Tuesday, 23 August 2022
Rahal, C., Verhagen, M. and Kirk, D. (2022) “The rise of machine learning in the academic social sciences”, AI and Society, 39(2), pp. 799–801.
Tuesday, 23 August 2022
Hassan, S., Kirk, D. and Andersen, L. (2022) “The importance of living arrangements for criminal persistence and desistance: a novel test of exposure to convicted family members”, Journal of Developmental and Life-Course Criminology [Preprint].
Thursday, 14 July 2022
Hyra, D. et al. (2022) “Metropolitan segregation and the subprime lending crisis: Housing Policy Debate, 2012”, in The Affordable Housing Reader, pp. 396–414.
Friday, 08 July 2022
Bucci, R., Kirk, D. and Sampson, R. (2022) “Visualizing how race, support for Black Lives Matter, and gun ownership shape views of the U.S. Capitol insurrection of January 6, 2021”, Socius, 8.
Wednesday, 01 June 2022
Sampson, R., Kirk, D. and Bucci, R. (2022) “Cohort profile: Project on human development in Chicago neighborhoods and its additions (PHDCN+)”, Journal of Developmental and Life-Course Criminology, 8, pp. 516–532.
Wednesday, 25 May 2022
Kirk, D. and Rovira, M. (2022) “Do Black Lives Matter to employers? A combined field and natural experiment of racially disparate hiring practices in the wake of protests against police violence and racial oppression”, PLoS One, 17(5).
Tuesday, 01 March 2022
Morrison, C. et al. (2022) “Ride-hailing and road traffic crashes: a critical review”, American journal of epidemiology, 191(5), pp. 751–758.
Wednesday, 12 January 2022
Simpson, C. and Kirk, D. (2022) “Is police misconduct contagious? non-trivial null findings from Dallas, Texas”, Journal of Quantitative Criminology, 39, pp. 425–463.
Tuesday, 02 November 2021
Frey, A. and Kirk, D. (2021) “The impact of mass shootings on attitudes toward gun restrictions”, Socius: Sociological Research for a Dynamic World, 7, pp. 1–9.
Wednesday, 11 August 2021
Kirk, D. and Rovira, M. (2021) “An audit experiment to investigate the ‘war on cops’: a research note (Mar, 10.1007/s11292-021-09458-x, 2021)”, JOURNAL OF EXPERIMENTAL CRIMINOLOGY [Preprint].
Thursday, 18 March 2021
Kirk, D. and Rovira, M. (2021) “An audit experiment to investigate the ‘War on Cops’: a research note”, Journal of Experimental Criminology, 18(3), pp. 569–580.
Friday, 01 January 2021
Kirk, D. (2021) “Instrumental Variables Analysis”, in The Encyclopedia of Research Methods in Criminology and Criminal Justice: Volume II: Parts 5-8, pp. 846–849.
Friday, 11 September 2020
Brazil, N. and Kirk, D. (2020) “Ridehailing and alcohol-involved traffic fatalities in the United States: the average and heterogeneous association of uber”, PLoS One, 15(9).
Thursday, 30 April 2020
Kirk, D. (2020) “Home Free.”
Saturday, 01 February 2020
Desmond, M., Papachristos, A. and Kirk, D. (2020) “Evidence of the Effect of Police Violence on Citizen Crime Reporting”, American Sociological Review, 85(1), pp. 184–190.
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Dave is Professor of Sociology and joined the Department of Sociology and Nuffield College in 2015. At Nuffield, Dave is the Director of the Centre for Social Investigation as well as the Nuffield Undergraduate Scholars Institute (NUSI). He is also a faculty affiliate of the Oxford QStep Centre. Dave received his Ph.D. in sociology from the University of Chicago.

Dave's research agenda is primarily organised around three inter-related themes: the causes and consequences of police misconduct, solutions to criminal recidivism, and the causes and consequences of gun violence. His new book, Home Free (Oxford University Press 2020), traces the effect of residential displacement among the formerly incarcerated in the wake of Hurricane Katrina. Another project, funded by the National Collaborative on Gun Violence Research, is designed to examine the correlates and consequences of gun violence over the life course over the past 25 years, a period of dramatic social change in the US. Dave's research has appeared in American Journal of Sociology, American Sociological Review, Criminology, and The Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

Research Areas: Justice, Demography, Life Course, Criminology, Quantitative Methods.

 

Publications

Thursday, 24 October 2024
Lanfear, C. and Kirk, D. (2024) “The promise and perils of the sharing economy: The impact of Airbnb lettings on crime”, Criminology [Preprint].
Monday, 01 April 2024
Rahal, C., Verhagen, M. and Kirk, D. (2024) “The rise of machine learning in the academic social sciences”, AI & SOCIETY, 39(2), pp. 799–801.
Monday, 01 May 2023
Lanfear, C. et al. (2023) “Inequalities in Exposure to Firearm Violence by Race, Sex, and Birth Cohort From Childhood to Age 40 Years, 1995-2021.”, JAMA network open, 6(5), p. e2312465.
Tuesday, 04 October 2022
Kirk, D. (2022) “Neighborhoods’ peril for the formerly incarcerated”, Contexts, 21(3), pp. 34–39.
Wednesday, 07 September 2022
Rad, A., Kirk, D. and Jones, W. (2022) “Police unionism, accountability, and misconduct”, Annual Review of Criminology, 6, pp. 181–203.
Tuesday, 23 August 2022
Rahal, C., Verhagen, M. and Kirk, D. (2022) “The rise of machine learning in the academic social sciences”, AI and Society, 39(2), pp. 799–801.
Tuesday, 23 August 2022
Hassan, S., Kirk, D. and Andersen, L. (2022) “The importance of living arrangements for criminal persistence and desistance: a novel test of exposure to convicted family members”, Journal of Developmental and Life-Course Criminology [Preprint].
Thursday, 14 July 2022
Hyra, D. et al. (2022) “Metropolitan segregation and the subprime lending crisis: Housing Policy Debate, 2012”, in The Affordable Housing Reader, pp. 396–414.
Friday, 08 July 2022
Bucci, R., Kirk, D. and Sampson, R. (2022) “Visualizing how race, support for Black Lives Matter, and gun ownership shape views of the U.S. Capitol insurrection of January 6, 2021”, Socius, 8.
Wednesday, 01 June 2022
Sampson, R., Kirk, D. and Bucci, R. (2022) “Cohort profile: Project on human development in Chicago neighborhoods and its additions (PHDCN+)”, Journal of Developmental and Life-Course Criminology, 8, pp. 516–532.
Wednesday, 25 May 2022
Kirk, D. and Rovira, M. (2022) “Do Black Lives Matter to employers? A combined field and natural experiment of racially disparate hiring practices in the wake of protests against police violence and racial oppression”, PLoS One, 17(5).
Tuesday, 01 March 2022
Morrison, C. et al. (2022) “Ride-hailing and road traffic crashes: a critical review”, American journal of epidemiology, 191(5), pp. 751–758.
Wednesday, 12 January 2022
Simpson, C. and Kirk, D. (2022) “Is police misconduct contagious? non-trivial null findings from Dallas, Texas”, Journal of Quantitative Criminology, 39, pp. 425–463.
Tuesday, 02 November 2021
Frey, A. and Kirk, D. (2021) “The impact of mass shootings on attitudes toward gun restrictions”, Socius: Sociological Research for a Dynamic World, 7, pp. 1–9.
Wednesday, 11 August 2021
Kirk, D. and Rovira, M. (2021) “An audit experiment to investigate the ‘war on cops’: a research note (Mar, 10.1007/s11292-021-09458-x, 2021)”, JOURNAL OF EXPERIMENTAL CRIMINOLOGY [Preprint].
Thursday, 18 March 2021
Kirk, D. and Rovira, M. (2021) “An audit experiment to investigate the ‘War on Cops’: a research note”, Journal of Experimental Criminology, 18(3), pp. 569–580.
Friday, 01 January 2021
Kirk, D. (2021) “Instrumental Variables Analysis”, in The Encyclopedia of Research Methods in Criminology and Criminal Justice: Volume II: Parts 5-8, pp. 846–849.
Friday, 11 September 2020
Brazil, N. and Kirk, D. (2020) “Ridehailing and alcohol-involved traffic fatalities in the United States: the average and heterogeneous association of uber”, PLoS One, 15(9).
Thursday, 30 April 2020
Kirk, D. (2020) “Home Free.”
Saturday, 01 February 2020
Desmond, M., Papachristos, A. and Kirk, D. (2020) “Evidence of the Effect of Police Violence on Citizen Crime Reporting”, American Sociological Review, 85(1), pp. 184–190.

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