David Kirk (sociologist)

David S. Kirk is an American sociologist and professor of sociology in the Department of Sociology and Nuffield College, Oxford.^[2] Before joining the Oxford faculty in 2015, he was an associate professor in the department of sociology at the University of Texas at Austin.^[3] His research interests have included the effects of high concentrations of former prisoners in a neighborhood on their probability of reoffending,^[4] and the effects of Uber on rates of drunk driving in the United States.^[5]

David Kirk
Education	Vanderbilt University University of Chicago
Awards	2010 James F. Short Jr. Distinguished Article Award from the Crime, Law, and Deviance Section of the American Sociological Association
Scientific career
Fields	Sociology
Institutions	University of Oxford's Nuffield College University of Texas at Austin
Thesis	Unraveling the neighborhood and school effects on youth behavior (2006)
Academic advisors	Robert J. Sampson[1]

References

1. Gladwell, Malcolm (24 August 2015). "What Social Scientists Learned from Katrina". The New Yorker. Retrieved 2017-07-21.
2. "David Kirk". www.sociology.ox.ac.uk. Retrieved 2017-07-21.
3. "David Kirk CV" (PDF).^{[permanent dead link]}
4. Kirk, David S. (2015-06-02). "A natural experiment of the consequences of concentrating former prisoners in the same neighborhoods". Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 112 (22): 6943–6948. Bibcode:2015PNAS..112.6943K. doi:10.1073/pnas.1501987112. ISSN 0027-8424. PMC 4460478. PMID 25976097.
5. Kelly, Heather (2016-07-29). "Uber doesn't decrease drunk driving, study says". CNNMoney. Retrieved 2017-07-21.

External links

• Faculty page
• David Kirk publications indexed by Google Scholar