Publications
Book Chapters
Wickes, Rebecca and Mazerolle, Lorraine (2022). Brisbane: a story of neighbourhoods and crime in a modern Australian city. Crime and disorder in community context. (pp. 1-22) edited by Rebecca Wickes and Lorraine Mazerolle. Abingdon, Oxon, United Kingdom: Routledge. doi: 10.4324/9781315668178-1
Zahnow, Renee, Mazerolle, Lorraine and Wickes, Rebecca (2022). Converging neighbourhood vulnerabilities: the impact of exogenous shocks on crime. Crime and disorder in community context. (pp. 167-190) edited by Rebecca Wickes and Lorraine Mazerolle. Abingdon, Oxon, United Kingdom: Routledge. doi: 10.4324/9781315668178-9
Zahnow, Renee and Wickes, Rebecca (2017). Violence and aggression in socially disorganized neighborhoods. The Wiley Handbook of Violence and Aggression. (pp. 1-12) edited by Peter Sturmey. Hoboken, NJ, United States: Wiley. doi: 10.1002/9781119057574.whbva044
Wickes, Rebecca and Sydes, Michelle (2015). Immigration and crime. The Routledge handbook on crime and international migration. (pp. 11-25) edited by Sharon Pickering and Julie Ham. London, United Kingdom: Routledge. doi: 10.4324/9780203385562
Wickes, Rebecca and McGee Tara (2014). Navigating a successful doctoral research experience. Handbook of research methods and applications in spatially integrated social science. (pp. 617-634) Cheltenham U.K.: Edward Elgar Publishing.
Wickes, Rebecca and McGee, Tara (2014). Navigating a successful doctoral research experience. Handbook of research methods and applications in spatially integrated social science. (pp. 617-636) edited by Robert J. Stimson. Cheltenham, United Kingdom: Edward Elgar Publishing. doi: 10.4337/9780857932976.00038
Journal Articles
Corcoran, Jonathan, Lu, Ying, Keel, Chloe, Wickes, Rebecca, Reynald, Danielle and Browning, Christopher (2024). Examining the directionality of mobility patterns in activity spaces: Introducing the ‘mobility snowflake’ visual analytic and measurement framework. Applied Geography, 166 103250, 1-14. doi: 10.1016/j.apgeog.2024.103250
Wickes, Rebecca, Zahnow, Renee, Corcoran, Jonathan and Kimpton, Anthony (2022). Community resilience to crime: A study of the 2011 Brisbane flood. American Journal of Community Psychology, 70 (3-4), 379-393. doi: 10.1002/ajcp.12610
Zahnow, Renee, Corcoran, Jonathan, Kimpton, Anthony and Wickes, Rebecca (2021). Neighbourhood places, collective efficacy and crime: a longitudinal perspective. Urban Studies, 59 (4), 004209802110088-809. doi: 10.1177/00420980211008820
Corcoran, J., Zahnow, R., Kimpton, A., Wickes, R. and Brunsdon, C. (2019). The temporality of place: constructing a temporal typology of crime in commercial precincts. Environment and Planning B: Urban Analytics and City Science, 48 (1), 239980831984690-24. doi: 10.1177/2399808319846904
Gerstner, Dominik, Wickes, Rebecca and Oberwittler, Dietrich (2019). Collective efficacy in Australian and German neighborhoods: testing cross-cultural measurement equivalence and structural correlates in a multi-level SEM framework. Social Indicators Research, 144 (3), 1151-1177. doi: 10.1007/s11205-019-02081-4
Zahnow, Renee, Wickes, Rebecca, Taylor, Mel and Corcoran, Jonathan (2018). Community social capital and individual functioning in the post-disaster context. Disasters, 43 (2), 261-288. doi: 10.1111/disa.12317
Wickes, Rebecca, Zahnow, Renee, Corcoran, Jonathan and Hipp, John R. (2018). Neighbourhood social conduits and resident social cohesion. Urban Studies, 56 (1), 226-248. doi: 10.1177/0042098018780617
Sargeant, Elise, Wickes, Rebecca, Murphy, Kristina and Mazerolle, Lorraine (2018). Surrounded by violence: how do individual perceptions and community context shape views about violence?. Australian and New Zealand Journal of Criminology, 51 (3), 355-371. doi: 10.1177/0004865817723409
Wickes, Rebecca, Broidy, Lisa and Hipp, John R. (2018). Responding to neighborhood problems: is the division of community labor gendered?. Crime & Delinquency, 64 (9), 1215-1241. doi: 10.1177/0011128717750390
Corcoran, Jonathan, Zahnow, Renee, Wickes, Rebecca and Hipp, John (2017). Neighbourhood land use features, collective efficacy and local civic actions. Urban Studies, 55 (11), 004209801771721-2390. doi: 10.1177/0042098017717212
Zahnow, Renee, Mazerolle, Lorraine, Wickes, Rebecca and Corcoran, Jonathan (2017). Living near violence: how proximity to violence shapes perceptions of police effectiveness and confidence in police. Journal of Environmental Psychology, 53, 138-144. doi: 10.1016/j.jenvp.2017.07.007
Wickes, Rebecca, Zahnow, Renee, Shaefer, Lacey and Sparkes-Carroll, Michelle (2017). Neighborhood guardianship and property crime victimization. Crime & Delinquency, 63 (5), 519-544. doi: 10.1177/0011128716655817
Kimpton, Anthony, Corcoran, Jonathan and Wickes, Rebecca (2017). Greenspace and crime: an analysis of greenspace types, neighboring composition, and the temporal dimensions of crime. Journal of Research in Crime and Delinquency, 54 (3), 303-337. doi: 10.1177/0022427816666309
Zahnow, Renee, Wickes, Rebecca, Haynes, Michele and Corcoran, Jonathan (2017). Disasters and crime: the effect of flooding on property crime in Brisbane neighbourhoods. Journal of Urban Affairs, 39 (6), 857-877. doi: 10.1080/07352166.2017.1282778
Wickes, Rebecca, Hipp, John R., Sargeant, Elise and Mazerolle, Lorraine (2017). Neighborhood social ties and shared expectations for informal social control: do they influence informal social control actions?. Journal of Quantitative Criminology, 33 (1), 101-129. doi: 10.1007/s10940-016-9285-x
Wickes, Rebecca, Britt, Chester and Broidy, Lisa (2017). The resilience of neighborhood social processes: a case study of the 2011 Brisbane flood. Social Science Research, 62, 96-119. doi: 10.1016/j.ssresearch.2016.07.006
Hipp, John R. and Wickes, Rebecca (2016). Violence in urban neighborhoods: a longitudinal study of collective efficacy and violent crime. Journal of Quantitative Criminology, 33 (4), 1-26. doi: 10.1007/s10940-016-9311-z
Wickes, Rebecca, Sydes, Michelle, Benier, Kathryn and Higginson, Angela (2016). ‘Seeing’ hate crime in the community: Do resident perceptions of hate crime align with self-reported victimization?. Crime and Delinquency, 63 (7), 875-896. doi: 10.1177/0011128715625079
Hipp, John R. and Wickes, Rebecca (2016). Minority status distortion and preference for in-group ties: consequences for social capital. Socius, 2, 237802311664028. doi: 10.1177/2378023116640281
Wickes, Rebecca L., Pickering, Sharon, Mason, Gail, Maher, Jane Marie and McCullough, Jude (2016). From Hate to Prejudice: Does the New Terminology of Prejudice Motivated Crime Change Perceptions and Reporting Actions?. British Journal of Criminology, 56 (2), 239-255. doi: 10.1093/bjc/azv041
Smith, Naomi, Wickes, Rebecca and Underwood, Mair (2015). Managing a marginalised identity in pro-anorexia and fat acceptance cybercommunities. Journal of Sociology, 51 (4), 950-967. doi: 10.1177/1440783313486220
Benier, Kathryn and Wickes, Rebecca (2015). The effect of ethnic diversity on collective efficacy in Australia. Journal of Sociology, 52 (4), 856-873. doi: 10.1177/1440783315599595
Benier, Kathryn, Wickes, Rebecca and Higginson, Angela (2015). Ethnic hate crime in Australia: diversity and change in the neighbourhood context. British Journal of Criminology, 56 (3), 479-496. doi: 10.1093/bjc/azv067
Wickes, Rebecca, Zahnow, Renee, Taylor, Melanie and Piquero, Alex R. (2015). Neighborhood structure, social capital, and community resilience: longitudinal evidence from the 2011 Brisbane flood disaster. Social Science Quarterly, 96 (2), 330-353. doi: 10.1111/ssqu.12144
Mazerolle, Lorraine and Wickes, Rebecca (2015). Police legitimacy in community context. Journal of Contemporary Criminal Justice, 31 (2), 128-131. doi: 10.1177/1043986215570780
Rohde, D., Corcoran, J., McGee, T. R., Wickes, R. and Townsley, M. (2014). Probabilistic methods of analysis for the time series Moran scatterplot quadrant signature. Environmetrics, 26 (1), 52-65. doi: 10.1002/env.2302
Sydes, Michelle L., Wickes, Rebecca L. and Higginson, Angela (2014). The spatial concentration of bias: an examination of the community factors that influence residents' perceptions of bias crime. Australian and New Zealand Journal of Criminology, 47 (3), 1-20. doi: 10.1177/0004865814522638
Wickes, Rebecca, Zahnow, Renee, White, Gentry and Mazerolle, Lorraine (2014). Ethnic diversity and its impact on community social cohesion and neighbourly exchange. Journal of Urban Affairs, 36 (1), 51-78. doi: 10.1111/juaf.12015
Hipp, John R., Corcoran, Jonathan, Wickes, Rebecca and Li, Tiebei (2014). Examining the social porosity of environmental features on neighborhood sociability and attachment. PloS One, 9 (1) e84544, 1-13. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0084544
Kimpton, Anthony, Wickes, Rebecca and Corcoran, Jonathan (2014). Greenspace and place attachment: do greener suburbs lead to greater residential place attachment?. Urban Policy and Research, 32 (4), 477-497. doi: 10.1080/08111146.2014.908769
Zahnow, Renee, Wickes, Rebecca, Haynes, Michele and Mazerolle, Lorraine (2013). Change and stability in ethnic diversity across urban communities: explicating the influence of social cohesion on perceptions of disorder. Australian and New Zealand Journal of Criminology, 46 (3), 335-356. doi: 10.1177/0004865813486903
Wickes, Rebecca, Hipp, John R., Sargeant, Elise and Homel, Ross (2013). 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. American Journal of Community Psychology, 52 (1-2), 115-127. doi: 10.1007/s10464-013-9582-6
Wickes, Rebecca, Hipp, John R., Zahnow, Renee and Mazerolle, Lorraine (2013). ‘Seeing’ minorities and perceptions of disorder: explicating the mediating and moderating mechanisms of social cohesion. Criminology, 51 (3), 519-560. doi: 10.1111/1745-9125.12011
Corcoran, Jonathan, McGee, Tara Renae, Townsley, Michael, Wickes, Rebecca, Zahnow, Renee and Li, Tiebe (2013). Malicious hoax calls and suspicious fires: an examination of their spatial and temporal dynamics. Trends and Issues in Crime and Criminal Justice, 459 (459), 1-5.
Sargeant, Elise, Wickes, Rebecca and Mazerolle, Lorraine (2013). Policing community problems: Exploring the role of formal social control in shaping collective efficacy. Australian and New Zealand Journal of Criminology, 46 (1), 70-87. doi: 10.1177/0004865812470118
Cheshire, Lynda, Wickes, Rebecca and White, Gentry (2013). New suburbs in the making? Locating master planned estates in a comparative analysis of suburbs in south-east Queensland. Urban Policy and Research, 31 (3), 281-299. doi: 10.1080/08111146.2013.787357
Cheshire, Lynda and Wickes, Rebecca (2012). Crime talk in the suburbs: symbolic representations of status and security on a master planned estate. Housing Studies, 27 (8), 1162-1181. doi: 10.1080/02673037.2012.728573
McGee, Tara Renae, Wickes, Rebecca, Corcoran, Jonathan, Bor, William and Najman, Jake (2011). Antisocial behaviour: An examination of individual, family, and neighbourhood factors. Trends and Issues in Crime and Criminal Justice, 410 (410), 1-6.
Cheshire, L., Walters, P. and Wickes, R. (2010). Privatisation, security and community: How master planned estates are changing suburban Australia. Urban Policy and Research, 28 (4), 359-373. doi: 10.1080/08111146.2010.532474
Wickes, Rebecca L. (2010). Generating action and responding to local issues: Collective efficacy in context. The Australian and New Zealand Journal of Criminology, 43 (3), 423-443. doi: 10.1375/acri.43.3.423
Wickes, Rebecca (2010). Review of: Crime and everyday life By Marcus Felson and Rachel Boba. Australian and New Zealand Journal of Criminology, 43 (2), 383-385.
Mazerolle, Lorraine, Wickes, Rebecca and McBroom, James (2010). Community variations in violence: The role of social ties and collective efficacy in comparative context. Journal of Research in Crime and Delinquency, 47 (1), 3-30. doi: 10.1177/0022427809348898
Wickes, Rebecca and Emmison, Michael (2007). They are all 'doing gender' but are they are all passing? A case study of the appropriation of a sociological concept. Sociological Review, 55 (2), 311-330. doi: 10.1111/j.1467-954X.2007.00707.x
Wickes, Rebecca, Smith, Philip and Phillips, Timothy (2006). Gender and national identity: Lessons from the Australian case. Australian Journal of Political Science, 41 (3), 289-308. doi: 10.1080/10361140600848929
Conference Papers
Kimpton, Anthony, Corcoran, Jonathan and Wickes, Rebecca (2015). Public greenspaces and crime: an analysis of crime timing and public greenspace amenities. State of Australian Cities Conference, Gold Coast, Australia, 9-11 December 2015. State of Australian Cities Research Network.
Wickes, Rebecca, Zahnow, Renee, Mazerolle, Lorraine and White, Gentry (2011). Diversity and trust: Do changing immigration patterns negatively impact social capital in urban communities?. ISA Research Committee 21 Sociology of Urban and Regional Development, Amsterdam Netherlands, 7-9 July 2011. Amsterdam Netherlands: International Sociological Association.
Wickes, Rebecca, White, Gentry and Mazerolle, Lorraine (2010). Ethnic heterogeneity and ‘hunkering’: Do changing immigration patterns influence collective efficacy and reciprocated exchange?. 2010 CEPS Annual International Conference, Canberra, Australia, 7-8 October 2010. Nathan, Qld., Australia: eResearch Services, Griffith University.
Wickes, Rebecca, Zahnow, Renee and Mazerolle, Lorraine (2010). Community Resilience Research: Current approaches, challenges and opportunities. 2010 National Security Science and Innovation Conference, Canberra, Australia, 23 September 2010. Deakin, A.C.T., Australia: Australian Security Research Centre.
Wickes, Rebecca and McCrea, Roderick Peter (2009). Sensing community in branded master planned estates. (ASSA) Workshop on Privatisation, Security and Community: How Master Planned Estates are Changing Suburban Australia, Brisbane, Australia, 28-29 September 2009. Academy of the Social Sciences in Australia.
McCrea, Rod, Wickes, Rebecca and Haynes, Michele (2008). Work and community: Does full-time employment inhibit community social ties and community place attachment?. The Annual Conference of The Australian Sociological Association, The University of Melbourne, Victoria, 2-5 December 2008. Melbourne, Australia: TASA.
Department Technical Report
Mazerolle, Lorraine Ann, Wickes, Rebecca Leigh, Rombouts, Sacha, McBroom, James, Shyy, Tung-Kai, Riseley, Kate Louise, Homel, Ross, Stimson, R., Stewart, Anna Louise, Spencer, Nancy, Charker, Jillian Helen and Sampson, Ronald Lee (2006). Community variations in crime: A Spatial and ecometric analysis. Technical Report; No. 1, Faculty of Arts, Griffith University, Atmospheric Environment Research Centre, Key Centre for Ethics, Law, Justice and Governance.
Research Reports
Wickes, Rebecca, Homel, Ross, McBroom, James, Sargeant, Elise and Zahnow, Renee (2011). Community Variations in Crime: A Spatial and Ecometric Analysis Wave 2:. ARC Centre of Excellence in Policing and Security.