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Ralph Taylor

Ralph Taylor is developing a series of papers in collaboration with Principal Investigator Per-Olof Wikström which seek to re-examine and re-frame questions of neighborhood effects and selection effects.

 

Background

Dr. Ralph Taylor received a PhD in social psychology from Johns Hopkins University in 1977. He has held positions at Virginia Tech (Psychology) and Johns Hopkins University (Center for Metropolitan Planning and Research), and became a member of the Temple University Department of Criminal Justice in 1984. He was a Visiting Fellow at the National Institute of Justice in 1997. His research has been funded by (in the U.S.) the National Science Foundation, the National Institute of Mental Health, the National Institute of Justice, the National Institute of Corrections and the Department of Human Health and Services. He received a College of Liberal Arts Outstanding Teacher Award in 2000.

His research areas have centered on understanding offending, victimization, and reactions to crime in a range of urban residential contexts ranging from sites to street blocks to neighborhoods. Other areas of interest have included DNA policy, jury service, and environmental justice. He authored Human territorial functioning (Cambridge, 1988) and Breaking away from broken windows (Westview, 2001).

For more information see: http://www.temple.edu/cj/people/People_Taylor.html

All publications are listed at http://www.rbtaylor.net/pubs.htm

Email: rbrecken@temple.edu

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