Taylor, R. B. (2007) Remarks to the New Mayor. Saint Joseph’s University Public Forum On Violence in Philadelphia (Seventh Annual Institute for Violence Research and Prevention Forum). February 22, 2007. Philadelphia, PA. PDF
Taylor, R. B. (2003). Crime Prevention Through Environmental Design. Ohio State University, October.
Taylor, R. B. (2002). Police Community Co-Production and Questions of Neighborhood Governance Structures. Invited Address, Open Society Institute-Baltimore. Baltimore (MD), November 20, 2002.
Taylor: R. B. (2001). Decline and disorder: Are we on the right bus? Invited address, Cumberland County Community College Forum, New Directions in Policing, Vineland (NJ), May.
Taylor, R. B. (2001). Communities and Crime, Fear and Grime: Pre-theoretical Concerns for Developing Longitudinal Theory. Invited colloquium, College of Criminal Justice, Northeastern University, January.
Taylor, R. B. (2000). Breaking away from broken windows. Invited colloquium, College of Criminology and Criminal Justice, Florida State University, January.
Taylor, R. B. (1999). Invited Sole Commentator, NIJ Cluster Conference on Predictive Crime Mapping. Washington, D.C.
Taylor, R. B. (1998). From the Corner of Mount and Fayette: How to Evaluate Comprehensive Community Initiatives. Invited paper, National Conference: Does it Take a Village?: Community Effects on Children, Adolescents, and Families, Pennsylvania State University, November.
Taylor, R. B. (1998) The Incivilities Thesis and Community Policing. Invited address, National Conference on Community Policing, Washington, D.C., November
Taylor, R. B. (1997) The Places Where Crime Happens: What We Know, What We Can Do about It, and What We Need to Know to Intervene More Effectively. Invited Plenary Address, National Institute of Justice Annual Research and Evaluation Conference, Washington, DC, June.
Taylor, R. B. (1995) Crime and Community: Constructs, curios and cautions. Invited workshop address, Interuniversity Consortium for Political and Social Research (ICPSR), University of Michigan, Crime and Communities workshop, Ann Arbor (June).
Taylor, R. B., Kurtz, E., and Koons, B. (1994). Connections between landuse mix, physical deterioration, informal social control, and police activity. Invited paper. Third annual International Conference on Situational Crime Prevention, Rutgers University, Newark, NJ (June).
Taylor, R. B. (1993). Neighborhood physical environment and disorder: A Plea for comprehensive theory and assessment. Invited paper. American Institute of Architecture / National Institute of Justice conference on Crime Prevention through Environmental Design. Grand Hyatt, Washington, D.C. (December).
Taylor, R.B. (1987) Fear of Crime and Human Micro-Ecology. Invited Colloquium: School of Criminal Justice, Rutgers University, Newark, New Jersey (September).
Taylor, R. B. (1987) Fear and mental health changes. Invited colloquium: Philadelphia Geriatric Center, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (October).
Taylor, R.B. (1986) Neighborhood Information Systems. Invited Address for Division 27 of the American Psychological Association. Presented at the annual meetings of the American Psychological Association (August).
Taylor, R. B., and Covington, J. (1987) Neighborhood ecology, violence, and changes in violence. Invited paper presented at the NIMH - Johns Hopkins School of Public Health and Hygiene Conference on Black Homicide, Baltimore (March).
Taylor, R.B. (1985) Human Territorial Functioning. Invited Address for Division 34 of the American Psychological Association. Presented at the annual meetings of the American Psychological Association, Los Angeles (August).
Taylor, R.B. (1982) Territorial functioning and disorder. Invited Colloquium: Central Pennsylvania Lecture Series, Susquehanna University, Selinsgrove, Pennsylvania (March)
Presented at Professional Meetings
1988-present
Wyant(+), B., Taylor, R. B., and Garcia(+), R.M. (2006). Citizen self reports of police-initiated contact. Paper presented at the annual meetings of the Academy of Criminal Justice Sciences, Baltimore, March.
McCord(+), E., Ratcliffe, J.H., Garcia(+), R. M., and Taylor, R. B. (2006). Density and proximity of crime generating and attracting landuses. Paper presented at the annual meetings of the Academy of Criminal Justice Sciences, Baltimore, March.
Taylor, R. B., Goldkamp, J.S., Harris, P., Jones, P., Garcia(+), R. M., and McCord(+), E. (2006). Community Justice Impacts over Time: Adult Arrest Rates, and Male Serious Delinquency Prevalence Rates Within and Between Philadelphia Communities. Paper presented at the annual meetings of the Eastern Sociological Society, Boston, February. PDF
Wyant(+), B., and Taylor, R. B. (2005) . Predicting the size of household firearm collections. Paper presented at the annual meetings of the American Society of Criminology, Toronto, November.
Garcia(+), R. M., and Taylor, R. B. (2005) Cognitive styles and the “need” for punitiveness. Paper presented at the annual meetings of the American Society of Criminology, Toronto, November.
Lawton(+), B. A. and Taylor, R. B. (2005). Attitudes toward the police and confidence in the criminal justice system across Pennsylvania. Paper presented at the annual meetings of the American Society of Criminology, Toronto, November.
Lawton(+), B., Luongo, A. and Taylor, R.B. (2004). Measuring the impact of Operation Safe Streets on the Displacement of drug crime. Paper presented at the annual meetings of the American Society of Criminology, Nashville, November.
Lawton(+), B. and Taylor, R. B. (2003). Impacts of a targeted drug crackdown in Philadelphia. Paper presented at the annual meetings of the American Society of Criminology, Denver, November.
Dote(+), L., Taylor, R. B., Costeck(+), R., (2002) Empirical and Legal Background on Jury Representativeness: Implications of Variations in County Jury Selection Processes for Potential Biases. Paper presented at the annual meetings of the American Society of Criminology, Chicago, November. (Presidential Session).
Taylor, R. B., Ratcliffe, J. H., Dote(+), L. (2002) Juror Yield and Community Micro-neighborhood Fabric: Contextual Impacts of Race, Stability, and SES. Paper presented at the annual meetings of the American Society of Criminology, Chicago, November. (Presidential Session).
Martin, S., Taylor, R. B., and Mason, R. (2001). Three perspectives on environmental justice: Social, criminal and political. Paper presented at the annual meetings of the Eastern Sociological Society, Philadelphia, March. CLICK HERE for abstract
Taylor, R. B. (1999) Testing the decline and disorder thesis: Do incivilities cause later neighborhood decline and crime changes? Paper presented at the annual meetings of the Eastern Sociological Society, Boston, March.
Taylor, R. B. (1998) Effects of Incivilities over time on reactions to crime: Longitudinal evidence. Paper presented at the annual meetings of the American Society of Criminology, Washington, November.
Brower, S., and Taylor, R. B. (1998). Neighborhoods and the extent of community. Paper presented at the annual meetings of the International Association for People-Environment Studies, Eindhoven, Netherlands, July.
Taylor, R. B. and Kurtz(+), E (1997) Impacts of individual incivilities on reactions to crime: Evidence from five cities. Paper presented at the annual meetings of the American Society of Criminology, San Diego, November.
Kurtz(+), E., and Taylor, R. B. (1997). Outcome variance decomposition of response to crime with Hierarchical Linear Models: Implications for theory and analysis. Paper presented at the annual meetings of the American Society of Criminology, San Diego, November.
Taylor, R. B. (1997) Neighborhood crime rates in Baltimore city: 1970 - 1992. Paper presented at the annual meetings of the Eastern Sociological Society, Baltimore, April.
Taylor, R. B. (1996) Crime and grime: Impacts on fear in Minneapolis - St. Paul. Paper presented at the annual meetings of the American Society of Criminology, Chicago, November.
Taylor, R. B. (1995). Community characteristics and responses to crime. Paper presented at the annual meetings of the American Society of Criminology, Boston, November.
Taylor, R. B. (1995). Hierarchical linear models and contextual analysis: The Gains and the persistent worries. Paper presented at the annual meetings of the American Society of Criminology, Boston, November.
Eichmiller(+), R., and Taylor, R. B. (1995). Fear and health redux. Paper presented at the annual meetings of the American Society of Criminology, Boston, November.
Taylor, R. B. (1995). Physical changes on Urban Blocks: Contrasting 1981 and 1994: Implications for theories of informal social control and territorial functioning. Paper presented at the annual meetings of the American Psychological Association, New York, August.
Taylor, R. B. (1995). Effects of crime and changes in crime on neighborhood house prices and vacancy rates. Paper presented at the annual meetings of the Eastern Sociological Society, Philadelphia, April.
Kurtz(+), E., Koons(+), B., and Taylor, R. B. (1995). Impacts of landuse mix and physical deterioration on resident-based control and police calls for service. Paper presented at a poster session at the annual meetings of the Academy of Criminal Justice Sciences, Boston, March.
Taylor, R. B. (1994). Responses to disorder and attachment to place: The Systemic model of attachment, social disorganization, and the concept of neighborhood use value. Paper presented at the annual meetings of the American Sociological Association, Los Angeles, August.
Taylor, R. B., and Mason, R. (1994). Reactions to punishments for environmental crimes. Paper presented at the annual meetings of the Eastern Sociological Society, Baltimore, April.
Taylor, R. B. (1993). Neighborhood change and the psychogeography of informal social control: Developing human microecology from a longitudinal perspective. Paper presented at the annual meetings of the American Society of Criminology, Phoenix, (October.
Koons(+), B., Kurtz(+), E., Greene, J. R., Taylor, R. B., and Perkins, D. (1992). Physical incivilities and landuse mix: Confirmatory factor analyses in Philadelphia and Baltimore. Paper presented at the annual meetings of the American Society of Criminology, New Orleans, November.
Taylor, R. B. (1992) Teaching research methods in criminal justice: Exploring alternate pathways of hypothesis testing and theory generation. Paper presented at the annual meetings of the American Society of Criminology, New Orleans, November.
Taylor, R. B. and Covington, J. (1991) Effects of neighborhood structural change on fear of crime. Paper presented at the annual meetings of the American Sociological Association, Cincinnati, August.
Covington, J., and Taylor, R. B. (1990) Conditional effects of neighborhood change on fear of crime and avoidance. Paper presented at the annual meetings of the Law and Society Association, San Francisco, June.
Taylor, R. B., Perkins, D., Shumaker, S. A. and Meeks(+), J. (1990) Effects of fear of crime on mental health. Paper presented at the annual meetings of the American Society of Criminology, Baltimore, November.
Taylor, R. B. (1989) Territorializing strategies, resource conservation, and territorial functioning. Paper presented at the annual meetings of the American Psychological Association, New Orleans, August.
Taylor, R. B. (1989) Toward a human micro-ecology of disorder: Merging principles of human ecology with environmental psychology. Presidential address, Division 34, annual meetings of the American Psychological Association, New Orleans, August.
Taylor, R. B., and Covington, J. (1989) Neighborhood change, person-environment bonds, and fear of crime. Paper presented at the annual meetings of the American Psychological Association, New Orleans, August.
Covington, J. and Taylor, R. B. (1989) Understanding fear of crime: implications of between- and within-neighborhood sources. Paper presented at the annual meetings of the American Sociological Association, San Francisco, August.
Taylor, R.B., and Kagehiro, D.K. (1988) An Empirical Look at 'Assumption of Risk' in Consent Searches. Paper presented at the American Psychological Association, Atlanta, August.
Taylor, R.B., and Perkins, D. (1988) Fear of Crime and Mental Health in Disorderly Urban Settings. Paper presented at the annual meetings of the American Psychological Association, Atlanta, August.
Taylor, R. B., and Covington, J. (1988) Neighborhood changes in ecology and violence. Paper presented at the annual meetings of the American Society of Criminology, Chicago, November.
Covington, J. and Taylor, R. B. (1988) Neighborhood revitalization and crime. Paper presented at the annual meetings of the American Sociological Association, Atlanta, August.
Remarks2001
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Tuesday, September 25. Panel: The Academic Job Search: Hiring from the Search Committee's
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