Thiago R. Oliveira

Welcome to my website! I am currently a Senior Lecturer (Associate Professor) in the Department of Criminology, University of Manchester. I have a PhD in Social Research Methods from the London School of Economics and Political Science. I am also an Associate Member of Nuffield College in the University of Oxford, an Associate of Harvard’s Sociology Department, and an Associate Member of the Center for the Study of Violence of the University of São Paulo. I am also part of the team for the Project on Human Development in Chicago Neighborhoods (PHDCN+), a multi-cohort study led by Robert Sampson and Dave Kirk. Previously, I was Lecturer (Assistant Professor) at the University of Surrey (2022/23) and a Research Fellow of Nuffield College in the University of Oxford (2021/22).

I am a quantitative social scientist working on quantitative criminology, law and society, urban sociology, and quantitative research methods. With an interdisciplinary background in sociology and social data science, I mostly draw on theories from sociology, social psychology, and law and society to investigate how legal institutions reproduce social inequalities through legal estrangement. Methodologically, I use methods from econometrics, demography, and epidemiology, with focus on causal inference and longitudinal data analysis. My research on the theory of legal cynicism uses a combination of longitudinal, survey, spatial, and administrative data from cities in the USA, UK, and Latin America. My work has appeared in venues such as Law & Society Review, the Journal of Quantitative Criminology, the Journal of Research in Crime and Delinquency, and the British Journal of Criminology, among others.

Find more about me and my research here! On this website, you can also find my up-to-date CV, some research I am currently working on, and a list of my published papers. You can also find a list of papers I published in Portuguese. In addition, you can find slides of some of my recent presentations and materials I have developed for teaching.

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