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

  • Monash University

    University, Melbourne, Australia
    Associate Professor

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
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1 Journal Article

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
2 Journal Article

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
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3 Journal Article

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
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4 Journal Article

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
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5 Journal Article

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
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6 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
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7 Journal Article

Neighbourhood places, collective efficacy and crime: A longitudinal perspective

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

Outlaw motorcycle gangs and neighbourhood crime

Authors Luke Lakeman, Kathryn Benier, Rebecca Wickes
Year 2021
Journal Name Current Issues in Criminal Justice
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9 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
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10 Journal Article

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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11 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
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12 Journal Article

Community social capital and individual functioning in the post‐disaster context

Authors Renee Zahnow, Rebecca Wickes, Mel Taylor, ...
Year 2019
Journal Name Disasters
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13 Journal Article

Neighbourhood social conduits and resident social cohesion

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

The Spatial and Temporal Dynamics of Neighborhood Informal Social Control and Crime

Authors Rebecca Wickes, John R Hipp
Year 2018
Journal Name Social Forces
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15 Journal Article

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
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16 Journal Article

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
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17 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
18 Journal Article

The neighbourhood context of crime against international students

Authors Helen Forbes-Mewett, Rebecca Wickes
Year 2017
Journal Name Journal of Sociology
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19 Journal Article

Neighbourhood land use features, collective efficacy and local civic actions

Authors Jonathan Corcoran, Rebecca Wickes, Renee Zahnow, ...
Year 2017
Journal Name Urban Studies
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20 Journal Article

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
21 Journal Article

Greenspace and Crime

Authors Anthony Kimpton, Jonathan Corcoran, Rebecca Wickes
Year 2017
Journal Name Journal of Research in Crime and Delinquency
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22 Journal Article

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
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23 Journal Article

Neighborhood Guardianship and Property Crime Victimization

Authors Rebecca Wickes, Renee Zahnow, Lacey Schaefer, ...
Year 2017
Journal Name Crime & Delinquency
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24 Journal Article

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
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25 Journal Article

“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
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26 Journal Article

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
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27 Journal Article

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
28 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
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29 Journal Article

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
30 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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31 Journal Article

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Year 2015
Journal Name Journal of Contemporary Criminal Justice
32 Journal Article

Police Legitimacy in Community Context

Authors Lorraine Mazerolle, Rebecca Wickes
Year 2015
Journal Name Journal of Contemporary Criminal Justice
33 Journal Article

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
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34 Journal Article

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
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35 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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36 Journal Article

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
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37 Journal Article

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
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38 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
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39 Journal Article

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
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40 Journal Article

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
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41 Journal Article

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
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42 Journal Article

“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
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43 Journal Article

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
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44 Journal Article

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
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45 Journal Article

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
46 Journal Article

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
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47 Journal Article

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
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48 Journal Article

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
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49 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
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50 Journal Article

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
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51 Journal Article

Policing Hate Crime

Authors Gail Mason, JaneMaree Maher, Jude McCulloch, ...
Year 2017
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52 Journal Article

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
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1 Journal Article

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
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2 Journal Article

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
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3 Journal Article
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