Chris Smith
@cmsmith_soc
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Assistant Professor of Sociology at the University of Toronto. Studies gender, crime, social networks, and Prohibition Era Chicago. (she/her) 🏳️🌈 #firstgen
Toronto, Ontario
Joined January 2015
UMass Sociology is crushing it!
We are pleased to announce that David Cort, Laurel Smith-Doerr, & Donald Tomaskovic-Devey @DonTD_tweets @UMassAmherst will be the next editors of American Sociological Review @ASR_Journal starting January 1, 2024.
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Brilliant #feministcriminology by @rl_soc looking at responding to police produced crime prevention messaging.
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Next up for @SocCrimeLawDev at #ASA22 are an engaging hour of round tables followed by awards! Join us at the Marriott, Gold Salon 3.
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Next up for @SocCrimeLawDev at #ASA22 are an engaging hour of round tables followed by awards! Join us at the Marriott, Gold Salon 3.
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3/4ths of our feminists of crime and law writing group got to meet up last night at #ASA2022. We missed you @kathrynemyoung with @brianna_remster @nickyfox530
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Janice Irvine isn't on Twitter, but she writes brilliant books. Check out her newest open-access e-book, Marginal People in Deviant Places: Ethnography, Difference, and the Challenge to Scientific Racism. Thank you for letting me be a part of this! https://t.co/Mv8sRlocFM
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Happy to see my #BookReview of @cmsmith_soc's Syndicate Women out. TL;DR - a great work of both archival research and social network analysis that makes an important contribution to the study of #OrganizedCrime and illicit enterprise.
clcjbooks.rutgers.edu
Author: Chris M. Smith Publisher: University of California Press, 2019. 208 pages. Reviewer: R. V. Gundur ǀ June 2022
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In a study, @AVPapachristos looks at organized crime networks during Prohibition in Chicago and how "violence brokers," or individuals who committed multiple violent acts and helped create a connected violence network, transformed crime in the city.
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The rise of organised crime changed Chicago violence structurally by creating networks of rivalries and conflicts wherein violence ricocheted. This study examines the organised crime violence netwo...
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📢With @sadaf_hashimi and @ML_Ouellet we are honored to share the first issue of a Double Special Issue Global Crime on the Criminology of Carlo Morselli, Guest-edited by Rémi Boivin and @ddhetu
https://t.co/9WLui1avwt
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The Criminology of Carlo Morselli. Volume 23, Issue 1 of Global Crime
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Latest paper published in @PLOSONE uses #NetworkScience and #MachineLearning tools to detect “crews” of criminal cops in the Chicago Police Department (thread) @jeeves @invinst @N3Initiative @IPRatNU @NUsociology a thread🧵 https://t.co/AQf6ZKe6lb
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Explanations for police misconduct often center on a narrow notion of “problem officers,” the proverbial “bad apples.” Such an individualistic approach not only ignores the larger systemic problems...
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The new article by @brianna_remster, @cmsmith_soc, and @rory_kramer takes an intersectional approach to explore the gendered and racialized consequences of "controlling images" in police encounters and violence. Find out more by reading here: https://t.co/rycMOukKdI
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This collaboration started off in a distillery in Philadelphia many ASCs ago. We examine Black, Latina, and Asian women's experience of police violence relative to white women and men of the same racial group.
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Acknowledgements to @SharlaAlegria , @nickyfox530, @kathrynemyoung, @tdomingos_soc and wonderful feedback from previous conferences.
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Our article "Race, Gender, and Police Violence in the Shadow of Controlling Images" with @brianna_remster and @rory_kramer is up on Social Problems today! https://t.co/4xldJeuaPp
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Tomorrow I finally get to meet Susana Vargas Cervantes to discuss their brilliant book #thelittleoldladykiller The Sensationalized Crimes of Mexico's First Female Serial Killer. Join this Author Meets Reader for some #genderandcrime
https://t.co/i5mbOafmVn
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Today I am grateful for zoom and getting to attend @nickyfox530’s book launch for #aftergenocide Thank you for this important feminist scholarship, Nicky!
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I knew I wanted to get my first publication framed, and I finally did! Regardless of anything else, this exists and I helped make it. Thanks again to my co-author @cmsmith_soc, and to @wakefield_sara who sent me a physical copy to use! Paper info: https://t.co/fSLTiptvXa
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Teaching in 3D is such an amazingly different experience. Welcome back to campus @UTMsoc. I loved seeing so many of you today.
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Episode 35 is here! It's our Grad Spotlight episode, which features PhD Candidate Jared Joseph (@Epsian). We talk about corruption and organized crime in Chicago during the prohibition era using a network analysis perspective! https://t.co/XdlXlDfZRM
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