John R. Hipp is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Criminology, Law and Society, and Sociology, at the University of California, Irvine. His research interests focus on how neighborhoods change over time, how that change both affects and is affected by neighborhood crime, and the role networks and institutions play in that change. He approaches these questions using quantitative methods as well as social network analysis. He has published substantive work in journals such as American Sociological Review, Criminology, Social Forces, Social Problems, Mobilization, City & Community, Urban Studies and Journal of Urban Affairs. He has published methodological work in such journals as Sociological Methodology, Psychological Methods, and Structural Equation Modeling.

Jesse Jannetta is a Research Associate with the Urban Institute, Washington, DC.

Rita Shah is a Criminology, Law, and Society doctoral student at the University of California, Irvine. Her research interests include the effect of neighborhood characteristics on parolee outcomes, the lived experience of parole, and females in the criminal justice system.

Susan Turner, Ph.D. is a Professor of Criminology, Law and Society and Co-Director of the Center for Evidence-Based Corrections at the University of California, Irvine. Before joining UCI in 2005, Dr. Turner was a senior behavioral scientist at the RAND Corporation in Santa Monica, CA for over 20 years. Dr. Turner's areas of expertise include the design and implementation of randomized field experiments and research collaborations with state and local justice agencies. Dr. Turner is a member of the American Society of Criminology, the Association for Criminal Justice Research (California), and is a Fellow of the Academy of Experimental Criminology.