Rate My Professor Robert Sampson

Sampson is Scientific Director of the Project on Human Development in Chicago Neighborhoods since 1994 and founding director of the Boston Area Research Initiative (2012–2015). He is an Affiliated Research Professor at the American Bar Foundation. His accolades include election to the National Academy of Sciences (2006), American Academy of Arts and Sciences (2005), American Philosophical Society (2011), and Corresponding Fellow of the British Academy (2016). Other honors encompass the Stockholm Prize in Criminology (2011), Guggenheim Fellowship (2018–19), and presidency of the American Society of Criminology (2011–12). Key publications feature Great American City: Chicago and the Enduring Neighborhood Effect (University of Chicago Press, 2012; second edition, 2024), Shared Beginnings, Divergent Lives: Delinquent Boys to Age 70 with John H. Laub (Harvard University Press, 2003), and Crime in the Making: Pathways and Turning Points Through Life with John H. Laub (Harvard University Press, 1993). An upcoming book is Marked by Time: How Social Change Has Transformed Crime and the Life Trajectories of Young Americans (Harvard University Press, 2026). Sampson co-edits the Annual Review of Criminology and has shaped the fields of urban sociology and criminology through pioneering work on collective efficacy and neighborhood inequality.