Pamela Wilcox

Pamela Wilcox is Professor of Sociology and Criminology at Pennsylvania State University. Her research examines communities and crime, environmental criminology, victimization patterns, school crime, and crime prevention strategies.

Professor Wilcox's work focuses on how individual and place-level risk factors for crime are influenced by neighborhood and school characteristics. Her recent investigations explore crime patterns in multi-unit housing, school-based prevention programs, and cross-national studies of cybervictimization.

She has developed theoretical frameworks connecting crime opportunity theories with contextual factors. Current projects analyze gendered impacts of crime prevention initiatives and spatial patterns of criminal activity in urban environments.