Aki Roberts
- Professor, Sociology
- Affiliated Professor, Urban Studies
Education
- PhD, Sociology, University of New Mexico
Office Hours
- Bolton Hall, Office 740
- Thursdays 4:00-7:00pm online, or by appointment
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
- Policing
- National Incident-Based Reporting Systems (NIBRS)
- Crime Clearance and Solvability
- Higher 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.