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...

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  • Griffith University

    University, Brisbane, Australia
    Professor

  • Monash University

    University, Melbourne, Australia
    Professor

Research

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
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1 Journal Article

Neighbourhood social conduits and resident social cohesion

Authors Rebecca Wickes, John R. Hipp, Renee Zahnow, ...
Year 2019
Journal Name Urban Studies
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2 Journal Article

Neighbourhood land use features, collective efficacy and local civic actions

Authors Jonathan Corcoran, Rebecca Wickes, Renee Zahnow, ...
Year 2018
Journal Name Urban Studies
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3 Journal Article

The neighbourhood context of crime against international students

Authors Helen Forbes-Mewett, Rebecca Wickes
Year 2018
Journal Name Journal of Sociology
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4 Journal Article

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
5 Journal Article

The resilience of neighborhood social processes: A case study of the 2011 Brisbane flood

Authors Rebecca Wickes, Lisa M. Broidy, Chester Britt, ...
Year 2017
Journal Name Social Science Research
6 Journal Article

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
7 Journal Article

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
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8 Journal Article

Managing a marginalised identity in pro-anorexia and fat acceptance cybercommunities

Authors Naomi Smith, Rebecca Wickes, Mair Underwood
Year 2015
Journal Name Journal of Sociology
9 Journal Article

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
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10 Journal Article

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
11 Journal Article

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
12 Journal Article

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
13 Journal Article

Neighbourhood places, collective efficacy and crime: A longitudinal perspective

Authors Renee Zahnow, Jonathan Corcoran, Anthony Kimpton, ...
Year 2021
Journal Name Urban Studies
14 Journal Article

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
15 Journal Article

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
16 Journal Article

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