Aki Roberts

Associate Professor, Sociology
Affiliated Professor, Urban Studies

Education

PhD, Sociology, University of New Mexico

Office Hours

Bolton Hall, Office #740
Thursdays between 3:00 and 5:00pm via Canvas Zoom

Teaching Schedule

Course Num	Title	Meets
SOCIOL 261-201	Introduction to Statistical Thinking in Sociology	No Meeting Pattern
SOCIOL 261-902	Introduction to Statistical Thinking in Sociology	No Meeting Pattern
SOCIOL 261-904	Introduction to Statistical Thinking in Sociology	No Meeting Pattern
SOCIOL 461-201	Social Data Analysis Using Regression	No Meeting Pattern
SOCIOL 461-901	Social Data Analysis Using Regression	No Meeting Pattern
SOCIOL 461G-201	Social Data Analysis Using Regression	No Meeting Pattern
SOCIOL 461G-901	Social Data Analysis Using Regression	No Meeting Pattern

Courses Taught

SOCIOL 261: Introduction to Statistical Thinking in Sociology
SOCIOL 927: Criminological Theories
SOCIOL 461: Social Data Analysis using Regression
SOCIOL 760: Advanced Statistical Methods in Sociology
SOCIOL 760: Advanced Statistical Methods in Sociology

Research Interests

Criminology
Race/Ethnicity and Criminal Justice
Policing
National Incident-Based Reporting Systems (NIBRS)
Crime Clearance and Solvability
Education
Quantitative Methods

Selected Publications

Roberts, A. (In press). Solving crime for America’s ‘Others’: Crime clearance and Asian American victims. Race & Justice.

Roberts, A. & Smith, H. R. (2023). Police diversity and crime clearance for Black and Hispanic victims. Criminology & Public Policy.

Roberts, A., & Roberts, J. M., Jr. (2022). Clearing crime in the aftermath of police lethal violence. Criminology & Public Policy 21: 619-648.

Roberts, A. & Roberts, J. M., Jr. (2020). Multiple Regression: A Practical Introduction. Sage Publications.

Roberts, J. M., Jr., Roberts, A. & Wadsworth, T. (2018). Multiple imputation for missing values in homicide incident data: An evaluation using unique test data. Homicide Studies 22: 391-409.

Roberts, A. (2018). Revisiting Japan’s postwar homicide trend: 1951-2014. Pp. 99-116 in Crime and Justice in Contemporary Japan, J. Liu & S. Miyazawa, Eds. Springer: New York.

Roberts, A. & Takeuchi, Y. (2017). Inside American Higher Education: Is the World’s Best System in Crisis? [In Japanese] Asahi Publications Inc. Highest sales rank reached in Amazon Japan: #290 overall and #1 in “study abroad” category.

Roberts, A., & Roberts, J. M., Jr. (2016). Crime clearance and temporal variation in police workload: Evidence from National Incident-Based Reporting System (NIBRS) data. Journal of Quantitative Criminology 32: 651-674.