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. [...]
This research note examines a finding that contradicts previously well-established knowledge in the field of organized crime, as well as studies of the effects of legalizing
vice. Unlike research on the aftermath of Prohibition in the United States post-1933, decriminalization of casino gambling in Nevada post-1931, and legalization of [...]
Social Sciences, Vol. 14, Pages 424: Understanding Youth Violence Through a Socio-Ecological Lens Social Sciences doi: 10.3390/socsci14070424 Authors: Yok-Fong Paat Kristopher
Hawk Yeager Erik M. Cruz Rebecca Cole Luis R. Torres-Hostos [...]
These brief comments revisit my side of the argument in the so-called Cotterell–Nelken debate in the light of responses from two younger scholars. I suggest that the debate
presupposed a considerable level of shared commitment to studying sociology's relationship to law, together with some disagreement about what was required for sociology [...]
