Karen F. Parker

Karen F. Parker
EducationUniversity of North Carolina-Wilmington, North Carolina State University
Awards2008 Coramae Richey Mann Award from the Division on People of Color and Crime of the American Society of Criminology
Scientific career
FieldsSociology, criminology
InstitutionsUniversity of Delaware, University of Florida
ThesisThe effects of structural conditions on racially disaggregated homicide rates (1996)
Doctoral advisorPatricia McCall
Websitesites.google.com/site/karenfparkerprof/home

Karen Faye Parker is an American sociologist and criminologist known for her research on urban violence.[1][2] She is a professor of sociology and criminology at the University of Delaware, where she has worked since 2007. She has also been a research associate at the University of Michigan's National Poverty Center since 2007, and was formerly a professor at the University of Florida before joining the faculty of the University of Delaware.

References

  1. ^ Misra, Tanvi (March 16, 2015). "How Black-Owned Businesses Help Reduce Youth Violence". Bloomberg.
  2. ^ White, Mercedes (May 5, 2013). "Let them work: Men's work programs give families and communities a leg up". Deseret News. Archived from the original on May 9, 2013.


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