Curriculum Vitae George E. Tita University of California, Irvine

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1 Curriculum Vitae George E. Tita University of California, Irvine Criminology, Law and Society Social Ecology II Office: (949) Irvine, CA Fax: (949) EDUCATION Doctor Of Philosophy, Public Policy and Management, May 1999 Carnegie Mellon University H. John Heinz III School of Public Policy and Management Master of Science, Public Policy and Management, May 1993 Carnegie Mellon University H. John Heinz III School of Public Policy and Management Bachelor of Arts, History and Russian Eastern European Studies, minor in Economics 1986 University of Pittsburgh, College of Arts and Sciences EMPLOYMENT 1/2011 present Director Masters in Public Policy Program 7/1/14 present Professor Criminology, Law and Society University of California, Irvine 7/1/07 6/30/14 Associate Professor Criminology, Law and Society University of California, Irvine 7/01/00 6/30/07 Assistant Professor Criminology, Law and Society University of California, Irvine 6/98-6/30/00 Associate Policy Analyst RAND Corp, Santa Monica, CA COURSES TAUGHT The Community Context of Crime; Homicide; Urban Street Gangs and Public Policy; Geographic Information Systems; Spatial Analysis and Statistics I (Point Pattern Analysis; Simple Autocorrelation) Spatial Analysis and Statistics II (Autocorrelation and Spatial Regression)

2 GRANTS: Sparcity Models for Spatiotemporal Analysis and Modeling of Human Activity and Social Networks in a Geographic Context. National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency Co-PI $100,00. Study of the Illegal Gun Market in Los Angeles, CA. California Wellness Foundation. Co-PI $225,000. Inferring Structure and Forecasting Dynamics on Evolving Networks Air Force Office of Scientific Research - Multiple University Research Initiative PI $325,005 FRG Collaborative Research: Predictability and control of urban crime hotspots NSF, Focused Research Groups n the Mathematical Sciences. Co-PI w/ Andrea Bertozzi (UCLA Mathematics) $83,531 Information fusion of human activity, social networks, and geography using fast compressive Sensing Office of Naval Research Co-PI w/ Andrea Bertozzi (UCLA Mathematics), P. Jeffery Brantingham (UCLA Anthropology) and Stanley Osher (UCLA Mathematics) $76,717 Ethnically Transforming Neighborhoods and Violent Crime Among and Between African- Americans and Latinos: A Study of South Los Angeles The John Randolph Haynes and Dora Haynes Foundation Co-PI with John Hipp $83,855 Mathematical and Simulation Models of Crime Hot Spots NSF-Human and Social Dynamics Co-PI with Jeffrey Brantingham (UCLA, Anthropology), Andrea Bertozzi and Lincoln Chaynes (UCLA, Mathematics) $750,000 Disrupting Illegal Gun Markets NIJ Co-PI with Greg Ridgeway (RAND), Anthony Braga (Harvard), Glenn Pierce (Northeastern) $400,000 Police Problem Solving Strategies for Dealing with Youth & Gang-related Firearms NIJ Co-PI with Peter Greenwood (RAND) NIJ $362,000 Social Networks in Hollenbeck: Gangs and Communities UCI CORCLR Program Co-PI with Katherine Faust and Elisa Beinenstock. $15,000 The Impact of Violence on Neighborhood Business Activity National Consortium of Violence Research Co-PI with Robert Greenbaum (Ohio State). $14,5000 Homicide in the Barrio and Ghetto of Los Angeles: Forty years of changes in drugs, gangs and community. National Consortium of Violence Research, PI. $54,000 PUBLICATIONS: BOOKS: George Tita, J. K. Riley, Greg Ridgeway, Clifford Grammich, Allan F. Abrahamse and Peter Greenwood Reducing Gun Violence: Results from an Intervention in East Los Angeles. RAND Press: Santa Monica, CA. (Chosen as a recommended book by the American Association of School Libraries and the Public Library Association.

3 JOURNAL ARTICLES Melissa Barraga, Kelsie Chesnut, Jason Gravel, Natalie Pifer, Nicole Sherman, Keramet Reiter and George Tita. Forthcoming. The Underground Gun Market: Implications for Regulation and Enforcement. Russell Sage Foundation Journal of the Social Sciences. Matthew Valasik, Michael S. Barton, Shannon E. Reid and George E. Tita Barriocide: Investigating the Temporal and Spatial Influence of Neighborhood Structural Characteristics On Gang and Non-Gang Homicides in East Los Angeles Homicide Studies. Jason Gravel, Blake Allison, Jenny West-Fagan, Michale McBride and George Tita Birds of a Feather Fight Together: Status-Enhancing Violence, Social Distance and the Emergence of Homogenous Gangs. Journal of Quantitative Criminology. Kelsie Chesnut, Melissa Barragan, Jason Gravel, Natalie Pifer, Keramet Reiter, Nicole Sherman and George Tita Not an Iron Pipeline, but Many Capillaries: Regulating Passive Transactions in the Los Angeles Secondary, Illegal Gun Market. Injury Prevention. Melissa Barragan, Nicole Sherman, Keramet Reiter and George Tita Damned if You Do, Damned if You Don t: Perceptions of Guns, Safety, and Legitimacy Among Detained Gun Offenders. Criminal Justice and Behavior. 43(1): Jason Gravel and George Tita With Great Methods Come Great Responsibilities: Social Network Analysis in the Implementation and Evaluation of Gang Programs. Criminology and Public Policy. 14(3): George Mohler, Martin Short, Sean Malinowski, Mark Johnson, George Tita, Andrea Bertozzi and P. Jeffrey Brantingham Randomized Controlled Field Trails of Predictive Policing. Journal of the American Statistical Association. 111(512): Martin Short, George Mohler, P. Jeffrey Brantingham, and George Tita Gang Rivalry Dynamics Via Couple Point Process Networks. Discrete and Continuous Dynamical Systems- Series B 19(5): Yoon-Sik Cho, Aram Galstyan, P. Jeffrey Brantingham, and George Tita "Latent Self- Exciting Point Process Model for Spatial-Temporal Networks." Discrete & Continuous Dynamical Systems-Series B 19(5): Lyndsay Boggess, Robert Greenbaum, George Tita Does Crime Drive housing Sales? Evidence from Los Angeles. Journal of Crime and Justice, 36(3): Yves Van Gennip, B. Hunter, R. Ahn, P. Elliot, K. Luh, M. Halvoran, S. Ried, M. Valasik, J. Wo, G. Tita, A. Bertozzi, P.J. Brantingham Community detection using spectral clustering on sparse geosocial data. Siam Journal of Applied Mathematics (SIAP) 73: P. Jeffrey Brantingham, George E. Tita, Martin B. Short and Shannon Reid The Ecology of Gang Territorial Boundaries. Criminology 30: Laura A. Smith, Andrea L. Bertozzi, P. Jeffery Brantingham, George E. Tita and Matthew Valasik Adaptation of an Ecological Territorial Model of Street Gang Spatial Patterns in Los Angeles. Discrete and Continuous Dynamical Systems. 32(9):

4 Rachel A. Hegemann, Laura M. Smith, Alethia B.T. Barbaro, Andrea L. Bertozzi, Shannon. Reid, and George E. Tita Geographical influences of an emerging network of gang rivalries. Physica A: Statistical Mechanics and its Applications. 390(21/22): Melanie-Angela Neuilly, Kristen M. Zgoba, George Tita and Stephen Lee Predicting Recidivism in Homicide Offenders using Classification Tree Analysis. Homicide Studies. 15(2): George Mohler, Martin Short, P. Jeffrey Brantingham, F. P. Shoenberg and George Tita Self-exciting point process modeling of crime: Journal of the American Statistical Association. 106(493): Jeremy M. Wilson, John M. MacDonald, and George Tita Localized Homicide Patterns and Prevention Strategies: A Comparison of Five Project Safe Neighborhood Sites. Violence and Victims. 5:1, Greg Ridgeway, Anthony Braga, George Tita, and Glenn L. Pierce Intervening in Gun Markets: An experiment to assess the impact of targeted gun-law messaging. Journal of Experimental Criminology. 7(1): George Tita and Steven Radil Spatializing the Social Networks of Gangs Explore Patterns of Violence. Journal of Quantitative Criminology. 27(4): George Tita and Steven Radil Making Space for Theory: The Challenges of Theorizing Space and Place for Spatial Analysis in Criminology. Journal of Quantitative Criminology. 25: John Hipp, George Tita, and Lyndsay Boggess A new twist on an old approach: A random-interaction approach for estimating the rates of inter-group interaction. Journal of Quantitative Criminology. 27(1):27-51 Martin Short, Jeffrey Brantingham, Andrea Bertozzi and George Tita Dissipation and displacement of crime in reaction-diffusion models of crime. Proceedings of the National Academy of Science. 107:3961:3965. Steven Radil, Colin Flint and George Tita Spatializing Social Networks: Using Social Network Analysis to Investigate Geographies of Gang Rivalry, Territoriality, and Violence in Los Angeles. Annals of the Association of American Geographer. 100: John Hipp, George Tita, and Lyndsay Boggess Inter- and Intra-Group Violence: Is Violent Crime an Expression of Group Conflict or Social Disorganization? Criminology, Vol 47:2, pp Neil F. Johnson, Chen Xu, Zhenyuan Zhao, Nicolas Ducheneaut, Nicholas Yee, George Tita and Mak Ming Hui Human Group Formation in Online Guilds and Offline Gangs Driven by a Common Team Dynamic. Physical Review E. 79, , pp (Reprinted in Virtual Journal of Biological Physics Research, July 1, 2009.) Elizabeth Griffiths and George Tita Homicide in and Around Public Housing: Is Public Housing a Hotbed, a Magnet, or a Generator of Violence for the Surrounding Community? Social Problems, Vol. 56:3, pp

5 Martin B. Short, Maria R. D Orsongna, Jeffrey Brantingham and George Tita Measuring and Modeling Repeat and Near-repeat Burglary Effects. Journal of Quantitative Criminology. Vol. 25:3, pp John Hipp, George Tita, and Robert Greenbaum Drive-bys and Trade-ups: Examining the Directionality of the Crime and Residential Instability Relationship Social Forces. Vol 87(4), Pp Martin B. Short, Maria R. D Orsogna, Virginia B. Pasour, George E. Tita, P. Jeffrey Brantingham, Andrea L. Bertozzi, and Lincoln B. Chayes A Statistical Model of Criminal Behavior. Mathematical Models and Methods in Applied Sciences. Vol 18, August, Pp George Tita and Greg Ridgeway The Impact of Gang Formation on Local Patterns of Crime. Journal of Research on Crime and Delinquency. Vol 44, No 2, Pp George Tita, Trica Petras, and Robert Greenbaum 2006 Crime and Residential Choice: A Neighborhood Level Analysis of the Impact of Crime on Housing Prices. Journal of Quantitative Criminology Vol 22, No 4, Pp Aili Malm and George Tita A Spatial Analysis of Green Teams: A Tactical Response to Marijuana Production in British Columbia. Policy Science Vol 39, No. 4, Pp reprinted in Natarajan, Mangai (Ed.) Drug Abuse: Prevention and Treatment (3). Surrey, UK: Ashgate Publishing, Pp George Tita, Anthony Braga, Greg Ridgeway and Glenn Peirce Criminal Purchase of Ammunition. Injury Prevention Vol 12, No. 5, Pp George Tita and Elizabeth Griffiths Traveling to Violence: The Case for a Mobility- Based Spatial Typology of Homicide. Journal of Research on Crime and Delinquency. Vol. 42, No. 2, Pp (Abridged version reprinted in: Crutchfield, R.D., C. E. Kubrin, G.S Bridges, and J.G. Weis (Eds.) Crime Readings Third Edition. Los Angeles: Sage Publications, pp ) George Tita, Jacqueline Cohen and John Engberg An Ecological Study of the Location of Gang Set Space. Social Problems. Vol. 52, No. 2, Pp Robert Greenbaum and George Tita The Impact of Violence Surges on Neighborhood Business Activity. Urban Studies. Vol. 41, No. 13, Pp (Awarded the Donald Robertson Prize Essay Award for 2004 by the editors of Urban Studies.) George Tita and Allan Abrahamse California Homicide: The Impact of Los Angeles and Gangs. At the Local Level: Perspectives on Violence Prevention. California Department of Justice/California Health and Human Services Agency: Sacramento, CA Jacqueline Cohen and George Tita Spatial Diffusion in Homicide: Exploring a General Method of Detecting Spatial Diffusion Processes. Journal of Quantitative Criminology, Vol. 15, No. 4, Pp Jacqueline Cohen and George Tita In Search of Diffusion: Spatial Analysis of Homicide: Editor s Introduction. Journal of Quantitative Criminology, Vol. 15, No. 4, Pp

6 Rolf Loeber, Mary Delamatre, George Tita, Jacqueline Cohen, Magda Stouthamer-Loeber, and David P. Farrington Gun Injury and Mortality: The Delinquent Backgrounds of Juvenile Victims. Violence and Victims. Vol. 14, No. 4. Pp Jacqueline Cohen, Dan Cork, John Engberg and George Tita The Role of Drug Markets and Gangs in Local Homicide Rates. Homicide Studies, Vol.2, No. 3, Pp BOOK CHAPTERS: George Tita and Adam Boessen Social Networks and the Ecology of Crime: Using Social Network Data to Understand the Spatial Distribution of Crime. In Gadd D.Karsted S., Messner S (Eds.), SAGE Handbook of Criminological Research and Methods.Pp Sage, Thousand Oaks, CA. George Tita and Steven Radil Spatial Regression Models in Criminology: Modeling Social Processes in the Spatial Weights Matrix. Handbook of Quantitative Criminology. Eds. Alex Piquero and David Weisburd. Pp Springer, New York, NY. George Tita and Andrew Papachristos The Evolution of Gang Policy: Balancing Suppression and Intervention. In Youth Gangs and Community Intervention: Research, Practice, and Evidence. Ed. Robert Chaskin. New York: Columbia University Press. George Tita and Robert Greenbaum Crime, Neighborhoods, and Units of Analysis: Putting Space in its Place. In Putting Crime in its Place. Eds. David Weisburd, Wim Bernasco and Gerben Bruinsma. Pp New York: Springer. Luc Anselin, Elizabeth Griffiths and George Tita Crime Mapping and Hotspot Analysis. In Environmental Criminology and Crime Analysis. Eds. Richard Wortley and Lorraine Mazerolle. Devon, UK: Willan Publishing. P. Jeffrey Brantingham and George Tita Offender Mobility and Crime Pattern Formation from First Principles. In Artificial Crime Analysis Systems: Using Computer Simulations and Geographic Information Systems. Eds. Lin Liu and John Eck. Hershey, PA: Idea Group Press. George Tita, J. K. Riley and Peter Greenwood Reducing Gun Violence: Operation Ceasefire in Los Angeles Research In Brief. National Institute of Justice. Washington, DC. George Tita and Jacqueline Cohen Measuring Spatial Diffusion of Shots Fired Activity Across City Neighborhoods. In Spatially Integrated Social Science. Eds. Michael F. Goodchild and Donald G. Janelle. Oxford Press: New York George Tita, J. K. Riley and Peter Greenwood From Boston to Boyle Heights: The Process and Prospects of a Pulling Levers Strategy in a Los Angeles Barrio in Gangs, Youth Violence and Community Policing. Editor Scott Decker. Wadsworth Press: Belmont, MA. Anthony Braga, David Kennedy & George Tita New Approaches to the Strategic Prevention of Gang and Group-Involved Violence. In Gangs in America, Third Edition, Edited by C. Ronald Huff. Newbury Park, CA: Sage Publication. George Tita Mapping the Social Space of Gangs in The Atlas of Crime, Eds. Elaine H. Hendrix, Borden Dent and Linda S. Turnbull. Oryx Press. Phoenix: AZ.

7 Luc Anselin, Jacqueline Cohen, Wilpen Gorr and George Tita Spatial Analysis: Practice and Prospects. Crime 2000: Measurement and Data, Vol. 3. National Institute of Justice. Washington, DC. BOOK REVIEWS: George Tita Inequality and Violence in the United States: Casualties of Capitalism (2 nd Edition) by Barbara H. Chasin Contemporary Sociology: A Journal of Reviews. 36:2 George Tita Youth Crime and Youth Culture in the Inner City by Bill Sanders Journal of the American Planning Association Vol. 73:2. George Tita Latino Homicide by Ramiro Martinez Social Forces Vol. 82:3 GOVERNMENT REPORTS: James C. Howell, Arlen Egley, George Tita, and Elizabth Griffiths U.S. gang problem trends and seriousness, Institute for Intergovernmental Research, National Gang Center. Tallahassee, FL. Greg Ridgeway, Glenn L. Pierce, Anthony A. Braga, George Tita, Garen Wintemute, and Wendell Roberts Strategies for Disrupting Illegal Firearm Markets: A Case Study of Los Angeles. Technical Report to the National Institute of Justice. RAND, Santa Monica, CA.. George Tita, Emily Troshynski, and Michelle Graves Strategies for Reducing Gun Violence: The Role of Gangs, Drugs and Firearm Accessibility: A Synthesis Report. National Centre on Crime Prevention, Policy, Research and Evaluation Division. Ottawa, Ontario Abby Roby and George Tita Delivery of Instruction in Los Angeles County Juvenile Court and Community Schools. RAND Project Memo-1207-EDU/JC. RAND: Santa Monica, CA OTHER: George Tita, Scott Hiromoto, Jeremy M. Wilson, John Christian and Clifford A. Grammich Gun Violence in the LAPD 77 th Street Area: Research Results and Policy Options. RAND Working Paper. Santa Monica, CA. Jeremy M. Wilson, Clifford A. Grammich and George Tita Homicide in the LASD Century Station Area: Data-driven Interventions. RAND Working Paper. Santa Monica, CA. George Tita, K. Jack Riley, Gregory Ridgeway, Clifford Grammich Unruly Turf: The Role of Interagency Collaborations in Reducing Gun Violence. RAND Review, 27:3. Pp CONFERENCE PRESENTATIONS: 2016 American Society of Criminology, New Orleans, LA The Social and Passive Nature of Illegal Gun Transactions in Los Angeles 2015 American Society of Criminology, Washington, DC Sources of Crime Guns to Violent Offenders in Los Angeles

8 A Game-Theoretic Model of Diffusion of Benefits and Crime Displacement 2014 American Society of Criminology, San Francisco, CA Policing Dosage and the Diffusion of Benefits A Game-Theoretic Evaluation of Suppression-based Policing Los Angeles Ammunition Logs Revisited 2013 American Society of Criminology, Atlanta, GA Los Angeles Ammunition Logs Revisited Crime Foraging in a Virtual World 2012 American Society of Criminology, Chicago, IL Trends in Gang Presence among American Cities, Secondary Effects of Pot: Medical Marijuana Dispensaries in San Jose, CA The Los Angeles Predictive Policing Experiment Geographic Patterns of Field Interviews: Examining the Context of Gang and non-gang Encounters 2012 Sunbelt Conference, Redondo Beach, CA A Relational Event Model of Gang Violence 2012 International Symposium on Forecasting, Boston, MA The Los Angeles Predictive Policing Experiment 2011 American Society of Criminology, Washington, DC A Relational Event Model of Gang Violence The Influence of Territoriality, Residency, and Injunctions on Gang Member Mobility 2010 American Society of Criminology, San Francisco, CA Stability and Change of Gang Networks Following or Preceding Violent Events Gang Territory Formation from Spatial Lotka-Volterra Competition Models American Association for the Advancement of Science, San Diego, CA Space and Gang Crime: Modeling Social Processes in the Spatial Autocorrelation Matrix 2009 American Society of Criminology, Philadelphia, PA Modeling the Spatial Distribution of Crime through Contiguity, Social Influence and Status Borrowing from Evolutionary Ecology and Biology: Can it Help Us Understand Interactions Between and Among Latino and Black Gangs in South Los Angeles Predicting Future Crime Events through a Self-Exciting Point Process 2009 North American Meetings of the Regional Science Association International The Impact of Crime on Neighborhood Choice of Intra-metropolitan Moves 2008 American Society of Criminology, St. Louis, MO Crime and the Local Economy: Examining the Reciprocal Relationship between Crime and Business Activity Unpacking the Relationship between Crime and Residential Stability 2007 American Society of Criminology, Atlanta, GA Coming Home Again: The impact of returning parolees on local levels of crime. Examining Inter-group and Intra-group Crime in Los Angeles.

9 2007 European Society of Criminology, Bologna, Italy Modeling the Spatial Distribution of Crime using Social Influence Models 2007 Stockholm Symposium on Criminology, Stockholm, Sweden Coming Home Again: Do returning parolees impact neighborhood levels of crime? American Society of Criminology, Los Angeles, CA Drive-bys and Trade-ups: The impact of crime on residential mobility patterns in Los Angeles Violence in the Balance: Using Network Analysis to Study Gang Crime Butterflies, bees, and burglars: The behavioral ecology of criminal search strategies Supply Side Strategies to Reduce Illegal Gun Markets in Los Angeles 2005 American Society of Criminology, Denver, CO The Impact of Watts Truce on Gang Violence Illegal Gun Markets in Los Angeles: Supply-side Interventions 2005 Community Geography and Small Area Analysis Satellite Meeting of the Research Society of Alcoholism Invited Panelist Networks as Nodes: Combining Social Network Analysis with Spatial Analysis to Explore Neighborhood Effects 2005 National Executive Session on Urban Youth Gangs, Los Angeles, CA Invited Panelist 2005 Sunbelt Conference, Redondo Beach, CA Spaced Out: The Spatial Dimensions of Social Networks 2004 American Society of Criminology, Nashville, TN The Advantages of Having Spaced Out Friends: Measure the Socio-Spatial Dimensions of a High Crime Community Association for Public Policy Analysis and Management, Atlanta, GA The Cost of Crime to Housing Markets: A Neighborhood Level Analysis 2004 Regional Science Association International, Seattle, WA The Impact of Changes in Crime Rates on Housing Markets: A Neighborhood Level Analysis 2003 American Society of Criminology, Denver, CO Gangs, Guns, and Drugs in the Community: Changes in the Mobility Patterns of Victims and Offenders Involved in Homicide Violent Crime and Housing Markets: A Neighborhood Level Analysis Identifying and Explaining Homicide Surges in Neighborhoods in Six American Cities 2003 American Sociological Association, Atlanta, GA Networks, Neighborhoods and Drive-bys: The Social and Spatial Dimensions of the Ties Linking Gangs to Communities Project Safe Neighborhoods National Convention, Philadelphia, PA Beyond Pin Maps: Using Spatial Analysis and Statistics in a Problem-Solving Approach 2002 American Society of Criminology, Chicago, IL

10 Specifying Space in a Model of Crime in the Presence of Gangs: Geography or Social Networks Spatial and Social Processes of Homicide: Bringing Offenders and Victims Together in Watts ( ) The Impact of Violence on Neighborhood Business Activity Homicide Rates in Southeast Los Angeles: The impact of 20 years of demographic change CAMPUS PRESENTATIONS: 2013 Presentation for the Thai Justice Delegation A Multi-Method, Multi-City Approach to Studying Illegal Gun Markets, with Keramet Reiter HONORS/AWARDS: Affiliate of the University of Chicago, Crime Lab (2013) Research Partner Award, Department of Justice, BATF (2005) University of California Irvine Social Ecology Senate Faculty Teaching Award (2004) University of California Irvine, Campus Junior Faculty Teaching Award (2004) Donald Robertson Prize Essay Award for 2004 by the editors of Urban Studies Selected as a Member of the National Consortium of Violence Research (1999) William W. Cooper Dissertation Award Carnegie Mellon University (1999) Otto Davis Award for Social Justice (1998) National Consortium of Violence Research (NCOVR) Pre-doctoral Fellowship (1997) Award 3 rd Place in ASC s Gene Carte Student Paper Competition (1997) Finalist for the American Sociology Association Division of Crime, Law and Deviance Student Paper Award (1997) NSF Summer Fellowship to Attend Summer Workshop on Qualitative Methods (1994) H.J. Heinz School of Public Policy Doctoral Study Fellowship ( ) H.J. Heinz School of Public Policy W.W. Cooper Merit Scholarship ( ) PROFESSIONAL ORGANIZATIONS: American Sociological Association, present Southern Sociological Society, present American Society of Criminology, 1995 present Society for the Study of Social Problems, present International Network for Social Network Analysis, 2004 present Regional Science Association International, 2004 present PROFESSIONAL SERVICE National Research Council, Committee on Unifying Social Frameworks, Social Problems Editorial Board, Criminal Justice Policy Review Editorial Board, 2005 present Journal of Quantitative Criminology Editorial Board, present