Layered abandonment: The moral interpretation of suffering in extreme confinement
Layered abandonment: The moral interpretation of suffering in extreme confinement Abstract Loss and rejection are central to prison life, yet how they crystallize into a more general sense of abandonment…
Friendship network integration and peer deviance: Revisiting the mechanisms connecting juvenile arrest with subsequent offending
Friendship network integration and peer deviance: Revisiting the mechanisms connecting juvenile arrest with subsequent offending Abstract We build on labeling theory and recent research on interpersonal exclusion to examine the…
Collateral labor: Male partner reentry and women’s economic lives
Collateral labor: Male partner reentry and women's economic lives Abstract Reentry scholarship frequently assumes that a partner's return stabilizes households and eases the burdens women absorbed during incarceration, yet the…
Christian nationalism, race, and contingent support for law enforcement: Results from two survey experiments
Christian nationalism, race, and contingent support for law enforcement: Results from two survey experiments Abstract Research in the United States shows a strong link between right-wing Christianity and support for…
Racial bifurcation and social control: Toward a general group conflict theory
Racial bifurcation and social control: Toward a general group conflict theory AbstractResearch on racial threat theory often demonstrates inconsistent results, suggesting limitations to traditional measures such as “percentage Black.” This…
Punishment begets punishment: An exploration of racial variation in school‐to‐prison pipeline mechanisms
Punishment begets punishment: An exploration of racial variation in school‐to‐prison pipeline mechanisms Abstract To mitigate the consequences of school punishment, we must move from documenting the school-to-prison pipeline (STPP) toward…
Which deaths count? Debating homicide coverage amidst newsroom scarcity
Which deaths count? Debating homicide coverage amidst newsroom scarcity Abstract Past research documents disparities in which homicides receive news coverage and how victims are portrayed, yet the organizational processes producing…
The role of police perceptions of gender variation in California police stops: A research note
The role of police perceptions of gender variation in California police stops: A research note Abstract Research showing that transgender people experience disproportionately negative police interactions raise a host of…
The informal prisoner justice system: Classification, identification, and punishment of sex offenders behind bars
The informal prisoner justice system: Classification, identification, and punishment of sex offenders behind bars Abstract Drawing on 576 interviews with incarcerated men and 131 correctional staff across five Western Canadian…
Determinants of case outcomes in Rwanda’s postgenocide gacaca courts
Determinants of case outcomes in Rwanda's postgenocide gacaca courts Abstract Transitional justice trials have become a central mechanism for addressing mass violence and human rights violations, yet little is known…
Glucagon‐like peptide‐1 receptor agonist use and violent crime among US adults
Glucagon‐like peptide‐1 receptor agonist use and violent crime among US adults Abstract Glucagon-like peptide-1 receptor agonists (GLP-1 RAs), a class of medications widely prescribed for diabetes and obesity, have exhibited…
Rational choice models of crime decision‐making: A flexible utility framework
Rational choice models of crime decision‐making: A flexible utility framework Abstract Rational choice models of the decision to commit a crime have been prominent in the criminological literature for decades.…