Rebecca Bucci

Rebecca Bucci

Postdoctoral Fellow (Sociology)

Harvard University

Biography

Rebecca is a Postdoctoral Fellow in Sociology at Harvard University. She recently received her PhD in Criminology at Penn State. Her research interests include neighborhood effects, policing, risk perceptions, social control, and adolescent development and delinquency.

Interests

  • Neighborhoods & Crime
  • Policing
  • Risk Perceptions
  • Causal Analysis
  • Social Control
  • Adolescent Development
  • Adolescent Delinquency

Education

  • PhD in Criminology, 2021

    Pennsylvania State University

  • MA in Criminology, 2017

    Pennsylvania State University

  • BA in Sociology, 2014

    University of Massachusetts Amherst

Publications

Addressing the ‘Dirty Little Secret’ of Deterrence: Testing the Effects of Increased Police Presence on Perceptions of Arrest Risk

This study exploits the timing of Operation Safe Streets, a hot spots policing intervention designed to increase officer presence, which occurred during an ongoing longitudinal survey of previously adjudicated adolescents (n = 700). Results show that Operation Safe Streets is related to an increase in perceptions of arrest risk for one’s self, as well as perceptions of other’s arrest risk.
Addressing the ‘Dirty Little Secret’ of Deterrence: Testing the Effects of Increased Police Presence on Perceptions of Arrest Risk

Visualizing How Race, Support for Black Lives Matter, and Gun Ownership Shape Views of the U.S. Capitol Insurrection of January 6, 2021

In this visualization, the authors examine how race, support for Black Lives Matter (BLM), and gun ownership predict views about the political uprising of January 6, 2021, at the U.S. Capitol.
Visualizing How Race, Support for Black Lives Matter, and Gun Ownership Shape Views of the U.S. Capitol Insurrection of January 6, 2021

Cohort Profile: Project on Human Development in Chicago Neighborhoods and Its Additions (PHDCN+)

This cohort profile decribes the newest waves (Wave 4 and 5) of the PHDCN. This extension is deemed the PHDCN+.
Cohort Profile: Project on Human Development in Chicago Neighborhoods and Its Additions (PHDCN+)

Pubertal Timing and Adolescent Alcohol Use: The Mediating Role of Parental and Peer Influences

This interdisciplinary study unpacks why 14-year-old adolescents with early perceived pubertal timing (PT) were more likely to drink alcohol (ever, frequent, and binge drinking) compared to those whose PT was on-time or late (5,757 girls, 5,799 boys).
Pubertal Timing and Adolescent Alcohol Use: The Mediating Role of Parental and Peer Influences

Pubertal Timing and Adolescent Delinquency

Early pubertal timing (PT) increases the risk of adolescent delinquency, whereas late development reduces this risk; however, the …
Pubertal Timing and Adolescent Delinquency

Changes in Externalizing Behaviors After Children First Have an Alcoholic Drink and First Drink Heavily

Proximal changes in externalizing behaviors before and after children and early adolescents have their first alcoholic drink and first …
Changes in Externalizing Behaviors After Children First Have an Alcoholic Drink and First Drink Heavily

Working Papers

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Recent & Upcoming Talks

A Multi-Cohort Study of Exposure to Gun Violence over 25 Years in the Life Course

Policy Shifts and Individual Perception Formation: Evidence from a Hot Spots Intervention

Experience

 
 
 
 
 

Postdoctoral Fellow

Harvard Department of Sociology

Jun 2021 – Present Massachusetts
 
 
 
 
 

Graduate Research Associate

Arnold Ventures

May 2018 – Aug 2018 New York
 
 
 
 
 

Graduate Research Assistant

Penn State Department of Sociology & Criminology

Aug 2015 – May 2021 Pennsylvania

Accomplish­ments

12th Annual Criminology Student Paper Competition - 1st Place

Research and Graduate Studies Office (RGSO) Dissertation Support Award

Graduate Student Research Award

Honorable Mention, Penn State 10th Annual Criminology Student Paper Competition

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