Citizens are calling for urgent action to release Dr Ahmadreza Djalali, an academic imprisoned and sentenced to death in Iran. Many citizens have written to the President of
the European Parliament on this subject since May 2025, asking her to intervene in order to stop his execution, secure his release, and ensure he has access to medical [...]
Social Sciences, Vol. 14, Pages 426: The Race Paradox in Mental Health Among Older Adults in the United States: Examining Social Participation as a Mechanism Social Sciences
doi: 10.3390/socsci14070426 [...]
Social Sciences, Vol. 14, Pages 425: What Are the Statistics That Improve Education? Social Sciences doi: 10.3390/socsci14070425 Authors: Marta Soler-Gallart Dragana Avramov
Nancy Zoidou Saripapa Karol Melgarejo Cristian González López María Troya Porras Alba Pistón-Pozo Esther Oliver Mimar Ramis-Salas Javier Díez-Palomar [...]
Societies, Vol. 15, Pages 194: A Review About the Effects of Digital Competences on Professional Recognition; The Mediating Role of Social Media and Structural Social Capital
Societies doi: 10.3390/soc15070194 [...]
In 2020, the United States was gripped by three parallel social movements: an outrush of support for the Black Lives Matter (BLM) movement after the murder of George Floyd,
discontent regarding state-mandated lockdowns to mitigate the coronavirus-19 pandemic, and allegations of voter fraud after the November elections. [...]
Drawing on signaling theory, this study examines whether postsecondary correctional education (PSCE) credentials—particularly vocational certificates that comprise the majority
of PSCE credentials conferred—improve postrelease employment outcomes. Despite renewed bipartisan policy interest in PSCE as a pathway to reduce labor market barriers, [...]
Research on gang disengagement has grown significantly within the past decade and has shed light on important aspects of this process, including the motivations for exit. Absent
from these discussions, however, is how these motives gain prominence, are structured by social structures such as race and ethnicity, and the identity mechanisms [...]
Research on reentry has documented how material hardship, network dynamics, and carceral governance impede reintegration after prison, but existing scholarship has left underdeveloped
other instances in which adverse outcomes stem from the institution's socioemotional dynamics and people's practical and emotional responses to bureaucratic indignities. [...]
