Pamela Wilcox
Professor
Department of Sociology
University of Cincinnati
United States of America
Biography
Pamela Wilcox received her Ph.D. in Sociology at Duke University in 1994. Her research focuses on multilevel crime control/prevention, with special interest in integrating components of routine activities theory and social disorganization theory in order to understand crime and victimization risk within school and community contexts. She is author (with Kenneth C. Land and Scott A. Hunt) of Criminal Circumstance: A Dynamic Multicontextual Criminal Opportunity Theory (Aldine de Gruyter 2003), and she is co-editor (with Francis T. Cullen) of the Encyclopedia of Criminological Theory and The Oxford Handbook of Criminological Theory. Recent articles have appeared in Criminology, Journal of Research in Crime and Delinquency, Justice Quarterly, Journal of Quantitative Criminology, Violence and Victims, and Journal of School Violence. She teaches in the areas of criminological theory and crime prevention.
Research Interest
Her research focuses on multilevel crime control/prevention, with special interest in integrating components of routine activities theory and social disorganization theory in order to understand crime and victimization risk within school and community contexts
Publications
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Ousey, G.C., Wilcox, P., Brummel, S. (2008). Deja vu all over again: Investigating temporal continuity of adolescent victimization. Journal of Quantitative Criminology (24), 307-355.
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Jordan, C.E., Pritchard, A.J., Wilcox, P., Duckett-Pritchard, D. (2008). The denail of emergency protection: Factors associated with court decision-making.. Violence and Victims, 23, 606-616.
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Wilcox, P., Jordan, C.E., Pritchard, A.J., Randa, R., (2008). Rurality-urbanism and protective order service. Journal of Crime and Justice, 31, 66-87.
