Professor Rebecca Wickes’ research focuses on neighbourhood social processes and their effects on crime and other social problems in Australia. She takes an interdisciplinary approach and is the lead investigator on the Australian Community Capacity Study (ACCS) – a multi-million-dollar project largely funded by the Australian Research Council and an internationally leading longitudinal study of the concentration of social problems in residential communities. Rebecca is also interested in the safety and inclusion of immigrants in Australia and is involved in ground-breaking projects that examine migrant women’s safety in the home, in the community and in the workplace.
Prior to joining Griffith, Rebecca was the Founding Director of the Monash Migration and Inclusion Centre (MMIC), established in 2018 at Monash University. In this capacity she worked with local governments, non-government organisations and state governments to identify programs and pathways that enhance social, economic and cultural inclusion in urban and regional communities. She was also the Convenor of Criminology in the School of Social Sciences at Monash University from 2018 to 2021.
| Migration Reasearch Hub ID: 4083 | |
| ORCID | https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6136-4815 |
| https://www.linkedin.com/in/www.linkedin.com/in/rebecca-wickes-12051747/ | |
| X/Twitter | https://twitter.com/@rlwickes |
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Griffith University
University, Brisbane, Australia
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Monash University
University, Melbourne, Australia
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Monash University
University, Melbourne, Australia
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Research
Friendly, not friends: migrant settlement and diverse social ties in Australian regional cities
| Authors | Bronte Alexander, Lawrence Rivera, Rebecca Wickes |
| Year | 2024 |
| Journal Name | Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies |
Examining the directionality of mobility patterns in activity spaces: Introducing the ‘mobility snowflake’ visual analytic and measurement framework
| Authors | Jonathan Corcoran, Ying Lu, Chloe Keel, ... |
| Year | 2024 |
| Journal Name | Applied Geography |
Perceived Variability as a Video-Media Prejudice Reduction Intervention
| Authors | Wing Hsieh, Nicholas Faulkner, Rebecca Wickes |
| Year | 2022 |
| Journal Name | Basic and Applied Social Psychology | Taxonomy | View Taxonomy Associations |
What reduces prejudice in the real world? A meta‐analysis of prejudice reduction field experiments
| Authors | Wing Hsieh, Nicholas Faulkner, Rebecca Wickes |
| Year | 2022 |
| Journal Name | British Journal of Social Psychology | Taxonomy | View Taxonomy Associations |
Ethnic Diversity, Social Identity, and Social Withdrawal: Investigating Putnam’s Constrict Thesis
| Authors | Rebecca Wickes, John Hipp, Jacqueline Laughland-Booÿ |
| Year | 2022 |
| Journal Name | The Sociological Quarterly | Taxonomy | View Taxonomy Associations |
Old age and fear of crime: cross-national evidence for a decreased impact of neighbourhood disadvantage in older age
| Authors | Göran Köber, Dietrich Oberwittler, Rebecca Wickes |
| Year | 2022 |
| Journal Name | Ageing and Society | Taxonomy | View Taxonomy Associations |
The vicarious effects of hate: inter-ethnic hate crime in the neighborhood and its consequences for exclusion and anticipated rejection
| Authors | Chloe Keel, Rebecca Wickes, Kathryn Benier |
| Year | 2021 |
| Journal Name | Ethnic and Racial Studies |
Neighbourhood places, collective efficacy and crime: A longitudinal perspective
| Authors | Renee Zahnow, Jonathan Corcoran, Anthony Kimpton, ... |
| Year | 2021 |
| Journal Name | Urban Studies |
Outlaw motorcycle gangs and neighbourhood crime
| Authors | Luke Lakeman, Kathryn Benier, Rebecca Wickes |
| Year | 2021 |
| Journal Name | Current Issues in Criminal Justice | Taxonomy | View Taxonomy Associations |
Regional migration and the local multicultural imaginary: the uneasy governance of cultural difference in regional Australia
| Authors | Helen Forbes-Mewett, Kieran Hegarty, Rebecca Wickes |
| Year | 2021 |
| Journal Name | Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies |
Collective Efficacy in Australian and German Neighborhoods: Testing Cross-Cultural Measurement Equivalence and Structural Correlates in a Multi-level SEM Framework
| Authors | Dominik Gerstner, Rebecca Wickes, Dietrich Oberwittler |
| Year | 2019 |
| Journal Name | Social Indicators Research | Taxonomy | View Taxonomy Associations |
The temporality of place: Constructing a temporal typology of crime in commercial precincts
| Authors | J Corcoran, R Zahnow, A Kimpton, ... |
| Year | 2019 |
| Journal Name | Environment and Planning B: Urban Analytics and City Science |
Community social capital and individual functioning in the post‐disaster context
| Authors | Renee Zahnow, Rebecca Wickes, Mel Taylor, ... |
| Year | 2019 |
| Journal Name | Disasters | Taxonomy | View Taxonomy Associations |
Neighbourhood social conduits and resident social cohesion
| Authors | Rebecca Wickes, Renee Zahnow, Jonathan Corcoran, ... |
| Year | 2018 |
| Journal Name | Urban Studies |
The Spatial and Temporal Dynamics of Neighborhood Informal Social Control and Crime
| Authors | Rebecca Wickes, John R Hipp |
| Year | 2018 |
| Journal Name | Social Forces | Taxonomy | View Taxonomy Associations |
Responding to Neighborhood Problems: Is the Division of Community Labor Gendered?
| Authors | Rebecca Wickes, Lisa Broidy, John R. Hipp |
| Year | 2018 |
| Journal Name | Crime & Delinquency | Taxonomy | View Taxonomy Associations |
Surrounded by violence: How do individual perceptions and community context shape views about violence?
| Authors | Elise Sargeant, Rebecca Wickes, Kristina Murphy, ... |
| Year | 2018 |
| Journal Name | Australian & New Zealand Journal of Criminology | Taxonomy | View Taxonomy Associations |
Problems, perceptions and actions: An interdependent process for generating informal social control
| Authors | John R. Hipp, Rebecca Wickes |
| Year | 2018 |
| Journal Name | Social Science Research |
The neighbourhood context of crime against international students
| Authors | Helen Forbes-Mewett, Rebecca Wickes |
| Year | 2017 |
| Journal Name | Journal of Sociology |
Neighbourhood land use features, collective efficacy and local civic actions
| Authors | Jonathan Corcoran, Rebecca Wickes, Renee Zahnow, ... |
| Year | 2017 |
| Journal Name | Urban Studies |
Disasters and crime: The effect of flooding on property crime in Brisbane neighborhoods
| Authors | Renee Zahnow, Rebecca Wickes, Michele Haynes, ... |
| Year | 2017 |
| Journal Name | Journal of Urban Affairs |
Greenspace and Crime
| Authors | Anthony Kimpton, Jonathan Corcoran, Rebecca Wickes |
| Year | 2017 |
| Journal Name | Journal of Research in Crime and Delinquency | Taxonomy | View Taxonomy Associations |
Violence in Urban Neighborhoods: A Longitudinal Study of Collective Efficacy and Violent Crime
| Authors | John R. Hipp, Rebecca Wickes |
| Year | 2017 |
| Journal Name | Journal of Quantitative Criminology | Taxonomy | View Taxonomy Associations |
Neighborhood Guardianship and Property Crime Victimization
| Authors | Rebecca Wickes, Renee Zahnow, Lacey Schaefer, ... |
| Year | 2017 |
| Journal Name | Crime & Delinquency | Taxonomy | View Taxonomy Associations |
Neighborhood Social Ties and Shared Expectations for Informal Social Control: Do They Influence Informal Social Control Actions?
| Authors | Rebecca Wickes, John Hipp, Elise Sargeant, ... |
| Year | 2017 |
| Journal Name | Journal of Quantitative Criminology | Taxonomy | View Taxonomy Associations |
“Seeing” Hate Crime in the Community: Do Resident Perceptions of Hate Crime Align With Self-Reported Victimization?
| Authors | Rebecca Wickes, Michelle Sydes, Kathryn Benier, ... |
| Year | 2017 |
| Journal Name | Crime & Delinquency | Taxonomy | View Taxonomy Associations |
The resilience of neighborhood social processes: A case study of the 2011 Brisbane flood
| Authors | Rebecca Wickes, Chester Britt, Lisa Broidy |
| Year | 2017 |
| Journal Name | Social Science Research | Taxonomy | View Taxonomy Associations |
Living near violence: How proximity to violence shapes perceptions of police effectiveness and confidence in police
| Authors | Renee Zahnow, Lorraine Mazerolle, Rebecca Wickes, ... |
| Year | 2017 |
| Journal Name | Journal of Environmental Psychology |
The effect of ethnic diversity on collective efficacy in Australia
| Authors | Kathryn Benier, Rebecca Wickes |
| Year | 2016 |
| Journal Name | Journal of Sociology |
| Citations (WoS) | 3 |
From Hate to Prejudice: Does the New Terminology of Prejudice Motivated Crime Change Perceptions and Reporting Actions?
| Authors | Rebecca L. Wickes, Sharon Pickering, Gail Mason, ... |
| Year | 2016 |
| Journal Name | British Journal of Criminology |
Ethnic Hate Crime in Australia: Diversity and Change in the Neighbourhood Context
| Authors | Kathryn Benier, Rebecca Wickes, Angela Higginson |
| Year | 2016 |
| Journal Name | British Journal of Criminology |
| Citations (WoS) | 8 | Taxonomy | View Taxonomy Associations |
Author Guidelines
| Year | 2015 |
| Journal Name | Journal of Contemporary Criminal Justice |
Police Legitimacy in Community Context
| Authors | Lorraine Mazerolle, Rebecca Wickes |
| Year | 2015 |
| Journal Name | Journal of Contemporary Criminal Justice |
Neighborhood Structure, Social Capital, and Community Resilience: Longitudinal Evidence from the 2011 Brisbane Flood Disaster*
| Authors | Rebecca Wickes, Renee Zahnow, Melanie Taylor, ... |
| Year | 2015 |
| Journal Name | Social Science Quarterly | Taxonomy | View Taxonomy Associations |
Probabilistic methods of analysis for the time series Moran scatterplot quadrant signature
| Authors | D. Rohde, J. Corcoran, T. R. McGee, ... |
| Year | 2015 |
| Journal Name | Environmetrics | Taxonomy | View Taxonomy Associations |
Ethnic Diversity and Its Impact on Community Social Cohesion and Neighborly Exchange
| Authors | Rebecca Wickes, Renee Zahnow, Gentry White, ... |
| Year | 2014 |
| Journal Name | Journal of Urban Affairs |
| Citations (WoS) | 20 | Taxonomy | View Taxonomy Associations |
Greenspace and Place Attachment: Do Greener Suburbs Lead to Greater Residential Place Attachment?
| Authors | Anthony Kimpton, Rebecca Wickes, Jonathan Corcoran |
| Year | 2014 |
| Journal Name | Urban Policy and Research | Taxonomy | View Taxonomy Associations |
The spatial concentration of bias: An examination of the community factors that influence residents’ perceptions of bias crime
| Authors | Michelle L Sydes, Rebecca L Wickes, Angela Higginson |
| Year | 2014 |
| Journal Name | Australian & New Zealand Journal of Criminology | Taxonomy | View Taxonomy Associations |
Examining the Social Porosity of Environmental Features on Neighborhood Sociability and Attachment
| Authors | John R. Hipp, Rebecca Wickes, Jonathan Corcoran |
| Year | 2014 |
| Journal Name | PLOS ONE | Taxonomy | View Taxonomy Associations |
Collective Efficacy as a Task Specific Process: Examining the Relationship Between Social Ties, Neighborhood Cohesion and the Capacity to Respond to Violence, Delinquency and Civic Problems
| Authors | Rebecca Wickes, John R. Hipp, Elise Sargeant, ... |
| Year | 2013 |
| Journal Name | American Journal of Community Psychology | Taxonomy | View Taxonomy Associations |
Change and stability in ethnic diversity across urban communities: Explicating the influence of social cohesion on perceptions of disorder
| Authors | Renee Zahnow, Rebecca Wickes, Michele Haynes, ... |
| Year | 2013 |
| Journal Name | Australian & New Zealand Journal of Criminology | Taxonomy | View Taxonomy Associations |
Managing a marginalised identity in pro-anorexia and fat acceptance cybercommunities
| Authors | Naomi Smith, Rebecca Wickes, Mair Underwood |
| Year | 2013 |
| Journal Name | Journal of Sociology |
“SEEING” MINORITIES AND PERCEPTIONS OF DISORDER: EXPLICATING THE MEDIATING AND MODERATING MECHANISMS OF SOCIAL COHESION
| Authors | REBECCA WICKES, JOHN R. HIPP, RENEE ZAHNOW, ... |
| Year | 2013 |
| Journal Name | Criminology | Taxonomy | View Taxonomy Associations |
Policing community problems: Exploring the role of formal social control in shaping collective efficacy
| Authors | Elise Sargeant, Rebecca Wickes, Lorraine Mazerolle |
| Year | 2013 |
| Journal Name | Australian & New Zealand Journal of Criminology | Taxonomy | View Taxonomy Associations |
New Suburbs in the Making? Locating Master Planned Estates in a Comparative Analysis of Suburbs in South-East Queensland
| Authors | Lynda Cheshire, Rebecca Wickes, Gentry White |
| Year | 2013 |
| Journal Name | Urban Policy and Research | Taxonomy | View Taxonomy Associations |
Crime Talk in the Suburbs: Symbolic Representations of Status and Security on a Master Planned Estate
| Authors | Lynda Cheshire, Rebecca Wickes |
| Year | 2012 |
| Journal Name | Housing Studies |
Privatisation, Security and Community: How Master Planned Estates are Changing Suburban Australia
| Authors | Lynda Cheshire, Peter Walters, Rebecca Wickes |
| Year | 2010 |
| Journal Name | Urban Policy and Research | Taxonomy | View Taxonomy Associations |
Generating Action and Responding to Local Issues: Collective Efficacy in Context
| Authors | Rebecca L. Wickes |
| Year | 2010 |
| Journal Name | Australian & New Zealand Journal of Criminology | Taxonomy | View Taxonomy Associations |
Community Variations in Violence: The Role of Social Ties and Collective Efficacy in Comparative Context
| Authors | Lorraine Mazerolle, Rebecca Wickes, James McBroom |
| Year | 2010 |
| Journal Name | Journal of Research in Crime and Delinquency | Taxonomy | View Taxonomy Associations |
They Are All ‘Doing Gender’ but are They are All Passing? a Case Study of the Appropriation of a Sociological Concept
| Authors | Rebecca Wickes, Michael Emmison |
| Year | 2007 |
| Journal Name | The Sociological Review |
Gender and national identity: Lessons from the Australian case
| Authors | Rebecca Wickes, Philip Smith, Timothy Phillips |
| Year | 2006 |
| Journal Name | Australian Journal of Political Science | Taxonomy | View Taxonomy Associations |
Policing Hate Crime
| Authors | Gail Mason, JaneMaree Maher, Jude McCulloch, ... |
| Year | 2017 |
| Journal Name |
Suggested Research
Tipping the (Im)balance: Risk, Rehabilitation and Membership in Administrative Appeals Tribunal Decision Making for Convicted New Zealander Long Term Residents of Australia
| Authors | Rebecca Powell, Rebecca Powell, Rebecca Wickes, ... |
| Year | 2024 |
| Journal Name | Journal of Immigrant & Refugee Studies |
| Citations (WoS) | 1 |
Linking with migrants: The potential of digitally mediated connections to build social capital during crisis
| Authors | Charishma Ratnam, Chloe Keel, Rebecca Wickes |
| Year | 2022 |
| Journal Name | Journal of Sociology |
Welcoming Neighbourhoods: Place Attachment and Ethno-Racial Acceptance
| Authors | Rebecca Wickes, Charishma Ratnam, Alex Piquero |
| Year | 2022 |
| Journal Name | Journal of Immigrant & Refugee Studies |
| Citations (WoS) | 2 |