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Jacob Stowell

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Associate Professor of Criminology and Criminal Justice

Professor Jacob Stowell’s research interests are guided by two general themes: communities and crime. More specifically, he is interested in the variation in patterns of violence across immigrant and non-immigrant neighborhoods. Most recently, his research has involved the use of tract-level data collected for a number of U.S. cities to test the question of whether immigration is associated with high levels of lethal and non-lethal violence, as theories of crime expect. Professor Stowell is currently involved in additional research projects which examine both the spatial and temporal aspects of the immigrant/crime link. Professor Stowell’s methodological interests include mapping, spatial analysis and structural equation modeling. His teaching interests include statistics, research methods, and communities and crime.

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  • Phillip Hoke Award for Excellence in Analysis for “Travel to Violence: Final Report,” 2007, Statistical Analysis Center (SAC)
  • Institute for Asian American Studies (IAAS) Research Fellowship, 2006, Project titled “A New Direction in the Study of Immigration and Crime: Examining the Between Asian Immigration and Criminal Deviance in New England.”
  • Pre-Doctoral Fellowship (Primary Mentor: Dr. Ramiro Martinez), 2004, National Consortium on Violence Research (NCOVR)
  • Paul Meadows Award for Excellence in Research, 2001, Department of Sociology, University at Albany

Stowell, Jacob I. (2007). Immigration and Crime: Considering the Direct and Indirect Effects of Immigration on Violent Criminal Behavior. New York: LFB Scholarly Press.

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  • Education

    PhD, 2005, Department of Sociology, University at Albany (SUNY)

  • Contact

    617.373.4246 j.stowell@northeastern.edu

  • Address

    429 Churchill Hall
    360 Huntington Avenue
    Boston, MA 02115

Jacob’s Colleagues

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Donna Bishop

Professor Emeritus of Criminology and Criminal Justice
Ekaterina Botchkovar

Ekaterina Botchkovar

Undergraduate Program Director; Professor of Criminology and Criminal Justice

Carlos Cuevas

Professor of Criminology and Criminal Justice; Co-Director of the Violence and Justice Research Lab

Kevin Drakulich

Associate Director and Professor of Criminology and Criminal Justice; PhD Program Director; Director of Race and Justice Lab

Amy Farrell

Director and Professor of Criminology and Criminal Justice; Co-Director of the Violence and Justice Research Lab

James Alan Fox

Research Professor of Criminology

Natasha Frost

Associate Dean of Research; Professor of Criminology and Criminal Justice; Co-Director of the Center on Crime, Race, and Justice
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Jack Greene

Professor Emeritus of Criminology and Criminal Justice
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Ineke Marshall

Professor of Sociology and Criminology and Criminal Justice
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Ramiro Martinez

Professor of Sociology and Criminology and Criminal Justice
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Nikos Passas

Professor of Criminology and Criminal Justice; Co-Director, Institute for Security and Public Policy

Simon Singer

Professor of Criminology and Criminal Justice
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Brandon Welsh

Professor of Criminology and Criminal Justice; Director, Cambridge-Somerville Youth Study, Co-Director, Crime Prevention Lab
Gregory Zimmerman

Gregory Zimmerman

Professor of Criminology and Criminal Justice; Master's Program Director; Director of Big Data and Quantitative Methods Initiatives; Dean’s Leadership Fellow

Krista Larsen

Assistant Teaching Professor of Criminology and Criminal Justice