Professional Summary
Calvin Proffit is a Ph.D. candidate at the University of Cincinnati's School of Criminal Justice. His research focuses on communities and crime, with a particular focus on immigration, race, structural inequality, and gangs at the macro level.
Education
M.S.: University of Cincinnati 2023 (Criminal Justice)
B.A.: University of Cincinnati 2022 (Psychology)
B.S.: University of Cincinnati 2022 (Criminal Justice)
Ph.D.: University of Cincinnati 2027 (Criminology and Criminal Justice)
Publications
Peer Reviewed Publications
Haberman, C. P., Barnes, JC., Tang, M., O'Guinn, B. J., Driscoll, C., & Proffit, C. (2023). The Effect of Checklists on Evidence Collection During Initial Investigations A Randomized Controlled Trial in Virtual Reality. Journal of Experimental Criminology, 1-16
Proffit, C. & Feldmeyer, B. (2024). COVID-19, Race, and Crime: An Early Look at Racial Disparities in U.S. Arrest Data throughout the COVID-19 Pandemic. Societies , 14 (3) More Information
Proffit, C. (2025). Conditional Revitalization: Immigration, Disadvantage, and Crime in Divergent Social Worlds. Journal of Criminal Justice., 101More Information
Proffit, C., & Feldmeyer, B. (2025). Four Pillars of the Immigration-Crime Myth: A Summary of US Public Opinion and Research on Immigration-Crime Rhetoric. Social Sciences, 14 (2) , 709More Information
Proffit, C. (2025). Gang Homicide and the Unequal Distribution of Disadvantage: Revisiting Krivo and Peterson's Threshold Effects 25 Years Later. American Journal of Criminal Justice, 51 (1) , 167
Proffit, C., & Feldmeyer, B. (2026). Gun Violence in the Age of Mass Migration: An Empirical Assessment of Immigration Effects on US County-Level Firearm Homicides, 2000-2015. International Criminal Justice Review
Proffit, C., Leverso, J., & Feldmeyer, B. (2026). Immigration and Serious Gun Violence: Assessing the Immigrant Revitalization Thesis on Urban Gang Shootings. . Journal of Criminal Justice., 103More Information
Proffit, C., Butler, L., & Feldmeyer, B. (2026). It's Still About Race: Assessing Sources of Public Opinion on Immigration and Its Ties to Crime, Gangs, Drugs, and Border Control. Crime & Delinquency
Other Publications
Proffit, C., Leverso, J., Feldmeyer, B. (2026) University researchers: Is immigration driving crime in Chicago? Here’s what the data shows . Chicago Tribune
Honors and Awards
2021 -2022 Francis T. Cullen Scholar Status:Recipient
2018 -2022 Cincinnatus Century Scholar Status:Recipient
2020 Donald W. Ritter Scholar Status:Recipient
2026 Ruth D. Peterson and Lauren J. Krivo Graduate Student Scholar Award Communities of Division and Place, American Society of Criminology