John R. Hipp

About

John R. Hipp is a Professor of Criminology, Law and Society, Urban Planning and Public Policy, and Sociology at the University of California Irvine. His research focuses on how neighborhoods change over time and how these changes influence and are influenced by neighborhood crime, social networks, and institutional roles. He employs quantitative methods and social network analysis to investigate these processes, with particular attention to the spatial and temporal dimensions of neighborhood dynamics. Hipp's work explores the agents of change within communities, examining processes at various spatial scales from street blocks to metropolitan areas, and considers how household decisions impact neighborhood ecology. He is the co-director of the Irvine Lab for the Study of Space and Crime (ILSSC) and the Director of the Metropolitan Futures Initiative (MFI), an interdisciplinary project dedicated to building economically vibrant, environmentally sustainable, and socially just communities through collaboration across disciplines and regions. Hipp has contributed to the field through his recent book, The Spatial Scale of Crime, and his research includes studying the spatial distribution of residents' social networks, supported by NSF funding. His work emphasizes the importance of networks and institutions in shaping neighborhood change, civic involvement, and residential mobility. Hipp has guided numerous students whose dissertations have led to faculty positions at various…

Research topics

• Computer Science
• Geography
• Sociology
• Medicine
• Psychology
• Mathematics
• Biology
• Virology
• Ecology
• Environmental health

Selected publications

• Spatial heterogeneity can lead to substantial local variations in COVID-19 timing and severity

  Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences · 2020 · 136 citations

  Standard epidemiological models for COVID-19 employ variants of compartment (SIR or susceptible-infectious-recovered) models at local scales, implicitly assuming spatially uniform local mixing. Here, we examine the effect of employing more geographically detailed diffusion models based on known spatial features of interpersonal networks, most particularly the presence of a long-tailed but monotone decline in the probability of interaction with distance, on disease diffusion. Based on simulations…

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• Measuring the Built Environment with Google Street View and Machine Learning: Consequences for Crime on Street Segments

  Journal of Quantitative Criminology · 2021 · 99 citations

  1st authorCorresponding
  PublisherOA PDFDOI

• Decoding urban landscapes: Google street view and measurement sensitivity

  Computers Environment and Urban Systems · 2021 · 83 citations

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• (Re)conceptualizing Neighborhood Ecology in Social Disorganization Theory: From a Variable-Centered Approach to a Neighborhood-Centered Approach

  Crime & Delinquency · 2021 · 27 citations

  Senior authorCorresponding

  Shaw and McKay advanced social disorganization theory in the 1930s, kick-starting a large body of research on communities and crime. Studies emphasize individual impacts of poverty, residential instability, and racial/ethnic heterogeneity by examining their independent effects on crime, adopting a variable-centered approach. We use a “neighborhood-centered” approach that considers how structural forces combine into unique constellations that vary across communities, with consequences for crime.…

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• Geographical patterns of social cohesion drive disparities in early COVID infection hazard

  Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences · 2022 · 21 citations

  The uneven spread of COVID-19 has resulted in disparate experiences for marginalized populations in urban centers. Using computational models, we examine the effects of local cohesion on COVID-19 spread in social contact networks for the city of San Francisco, finding that more early COVID-19 infections occur in areas with strong local cohesion. This spatially correlated process tends to affect Black and Hispanic communities more than their non-Hispanic White counterparts. Local social cohesion…

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Frequent coauthors

• Carter T. Butts

  University of California, Irvine

  32 shared

• Cynthia M. Lakon

  University of California, Irvine

  25 shared

• Adam Boessen

  University of Missouri–St. Louis

  23 shared

• Young-An Kim

  Florida State University

  22 shared

• Cheng Wang

  19 shared

• Jae Hong Kim

  University of California, Irvine

  19 shared

• Rupa Jose

  University of Pennsylvania

  15 shared

• Rebecca Wickes

  Griffith University

  14 shared

Labs

• ILSSC Irvine Lab for the Study of Space and CrimePI

Education

• Ph.D.

  University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill

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