#  Robert J. Sampson 

Woodford L. and Ann A. Flowers University Professor

 

 

 



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 laptop\_windows [Homepage](http://scholar.harvard.edu/sampson) 

 

 



 

   
*Research interests*: Crime, urban inequality, the life course, neighborhood effects, civic engagement, "ecometrics," and the social structure of the contemporary city.



 

 

 





 

 

- ## Faculty department
    
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