Charis Elizabeth Kubrin is an American criminologist and Professor of Criminology, Law and Society at the University of California, Irvine (UCI).
[2] In 2016, she and her UCI colleague Carroll Seron served as editors of a special issue of the Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science about prison realignment in California.
[3] Kubrin's research focuses on, among other topics, the relationship between race, violence, and social disorganization theory.
[4][5][6][7] With Graham Ousey, she has also studied the relationship between immigration and crime in the United States, finding that immigration is related to lower rates of crime and violence in U.S.
[8] Kubrin has stated that the Public Safety Realignment initiative was not a factor in the 2019 California stabbing rampage.