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Lauren J. Krivo (Ph.D. University of Texas, 1984) is Professor of Sociology and Associate Director of the Criminal Justice Research Center. Her current research focuses on explaining race-ethnic differences in neighborhood crime, patterns and consequences of the spatial dynamics of race-ethnic and economic segregation, and the interrelationships among residential segregation, socioeconomic context, and crime. With Ruth D. Peterson and John Hagan, she is the co-editor of The Many Colors of Crime published by New York University Press (2006). She is also the co-organizer (with Ruth Peterson) of the Racial Democracy, Crime, and Justice-Network and its Crime and Justice Summer Research Institute: Broadening Perspectives and Participation. Krivo is a member of CJRC's Spatial Crime Research Working Group.