Han Bae, Ph.D.
[Curriculum Vitae]
Post-Doctoral Fellow
School of Criminology, Criminal Justice, and Strategic Studies
College of Liberal and Fine Arts
Office: Fort Worth
Phone: 682-703-7111
Email: jbae@tarleton.edu
Dr. Bae has been involved in various research projects at research institutions in Korea and the United States. He is well trained in criminological theory, research methods, and statistics, with the ability to critically analyze complex data, especially through spatial analytics. Dr. Bae’s publications in criminal justice and sociology-related journals (e.g., the Sociological Quarterly and Race & Justice) demonstrate his research independence and leadership. Over the past few years, he has been conducting research that provides empirical evidence that injustices in social/economic structures adversely affect certain groups of people through differential exposure to drinking water toxins and inequitable enforcement of U.S. federal water regulations.
Currently, as a postdoctoral fellow at Tarleton State University, Dr. Bae is working with faculty to focus on the spatial-temporal analysis of neighborhood crime data in Texas. First, he is studying the relationship between neighborhood human mobility patterns, representing ambient populations, and their effects on property, violent, and drug-related crimes. The other study explores the neighborhood-level associations of ecological disorganization, concentrated disadvantage, and crime rates in the city of Arlington. Particularly, Dr. Bae created a new scale of ecological disorganization using environmental hazard indicators such as air pollution and proximity to waste/hazardous chemical facilities.
His long-term research agenda builds on his prior work and involves two streams of research that aim to blend criminological theories with environmental and geographical perspectives. The first stream of Dr. Bae’s research will assess the “climate change-temperature-crime” (CC-T-C) hypothesis, which posits that climate change, related to increased temperatures, causes an increase in crime. The other stream of his research will focus on the spatial-temporal analysis of neighborhood crime data and evaluate place-based crime control policies such as CPTED.