“My shot caller was the one who snitched on me”: Symbolic interactionism, identity, and motives for gang exit among Hmong gang members

“My shot caller was the one who snitched on me”: Symbolic interactionism, identity, and motives for gang exit among Hmong gang members Abstract Research on gang disengagement has grown significantly…
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Flawed research on the impact of law reform: The case of legal prostitution and sex trafficking, a research note

Flawed research on the impact of law reform: The case of legal prostitution and sex trafficking, a research note Abstract This research note examines a finding that contradicts previously well-established…
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LGBTQ+ perspectives on police reform: An examination of support for defunding, reallocating, and disbanding, a research note

LGBTQ+ perspectives on police reform: An examination of support for defunding, reallocating, and disbanding, a research note Abstract The murder of George Floyd in 2020 catalyzed a national discussion about…
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Seeing the state in action: Public preferences about and judgments of common police–civilian interactions

Seeing the state in action: Public preferences about and judgments of common police–civilian interactions Abstract New technologies allow unprecedented public visibility of routine police–civilian interactions, but we know little about…
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Anticipatory discrimination: How attorneys’ assumptions about fact triers’ biases sustain race and gender inequality in the civil legal system

Anticipatory discrimination: How attorneys’ assumptions about fact triers’ biases sustain race and gender inequality in the civil legal system Abstract Sociolegal research has shown that structural and interpersonal discrimination produce…
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How environmental features and perceptions influence the perceived risks and rewards of criminal opportunities

How environmental features and perceptions influence the perceived risks and rewards of criminal opportunities Abstract A central tenet of the criminal decision-making literature is that perceptions of the environment shape…
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Criminal justice as racialized organizations: Evidence from ethnographies of police, courts, and jails

Criminal justice as racialized organizations: Evidence from ethnographies of police, courts, and jails Abstract Criminology has long grappled with the relationship between race/racism and the criminal justice system. In this…
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