| Wounded city: Violent turf wars in a Chicago barrio R Vargas Oxford University Press, 2016 | 156 | 2016 |
| Criminal group embeddedness and the adverse effects of arresting a gang's leader: A comparative case study R Vargas Criminology 52 (2), 143-168, 2014 | 69 | 2014 |
| How health navigators legitimize the Affordable Care Act to the uninsured poor R Vargas Social Science & Medicine 165, 263-270, 2016 | 46 | 2016 |
| Being in “bad” company: Power dependence and status in adolescent susceptibility to peer influence R Vargas Social Psychology Quarterly 74 (3), 310-332, 2011 | 26 | 2011 |
| Race and state in city police spending growth: 1980 to 2010 R Vargas, P McHarris Sociology of Race and Ethnicity 3 (1), 96-112, 2017 | 25 | 2017 |
| Gangstering grants: Bringing power to collective efficacy theory R Vargas City & Community 18 (1), 369-391, 2019 | 17 | 2019 |
| Why Latino youth (don’t) call police R Vargas, L Scrivener Race and justice 11 (1), 47-64, 2021 | 14 | 2021 |
| Digital vulnerability: the unequal risk of e-contact with the criminal justice system R Vargas, K Preito-Hodge, J Christofferson RSF: The Russell Sage Foundation Journal of the Social Sciences 5 (1), 71-88, 2019 | 14 | 2019 |
| Organized community activity participation and the dynamic roles of neighborhood violence and gender among Latino adolescents DE Camacho‐Thompson, R Vargas American journal of community psychology 62 (1-2), 87-100, 2018 | 12 | 2018 |
| Medicaid expansion and ethnoracial disparities in health insurance coverage RD Flores, R Vargas Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies 43 (12), 2055-2071, 2017 | 11 | 2017 |
| Capitalizing on Crisis R Vargas, C Williams, P O'Sullivan, C Cano The University of Chicago Law Review 89 (2), 405-440, 2022 | 9 | 2022 |
| The racial and economic foundations of municipal redistricting R Vargas, C Cano, P Del Toro, B Fenaughty Social Problems 70 (4), 935-960, 2023 | 8 | 2023 |
| Governing Through Gun Crime: How Chicago Funded Police After the 2020 BLM Protests A Huq, R Vargas, C Loftus Harv. L. Rev. F. 135, 473, 2021 | 6 | 2021 |
| Postscript: Four Ways Race and Capitalism Can Advance Urban Sociology R Vargas City & Community 21 (3), 256-262, 2022 | 3 | 2022 |
| How Political Dynasties Concentrate Advantage within Cities: Evidence from Crime and City Services in Chicago S Ternullo, Á Zorro-Medina, R Vargas Social Forces 102 (4), 1310-1331, 2024 | | 2024 |
| The Social Structure of Private Donations to Police SY Shachter, E Chandler, K Misra, R Vargas Socarcivx Working Paper, 2024 | | 2024 |
| Uninsured in Chicago: How the Social Safety Net Leaves Latinos Behind R Vargas NYU Press, 2022 | | 2022 |
| The Insane Chicago Way: The Daring Plan by Chicago Gangs to Create a Spanish Mafia R Vargas Contemporary Sociology 45 (6), 744-745, 2016 | | 2016 |
| Book Review: Stuck in Place: Urban Neighborhoods and the End of Progress toward Racial Inequality R Vargas City & Community 13 (2), 183-184, 2014 | | 2014 |
Kayla Preito-Hodge, Ph.DAssistant Professor of Criminal JusticeVerified email at rutgers.edu
