In the past three decades, incarceration has become an increasingly powerful force for
reproducing and reinforcing social inequalities. A new wave of sociological research details …

The origins and contours of inmate social organization were once central research areas
that stalled just as incarceration rates dramatically climbed. In this review, we return to …

The creative use of fear by news media and social control organizations has produced a"
discurse of fear"-the awareness and expection that danger and risk are lurking everywhere …

They go by many names: helicopter parents, hovercrafts, PFHs (Parents from Hell). The
news media is filled with stories of well-intentioned parents going to ridiculous extremes to …

From gang-and drug-related shootings to mass shootings in schools, shopping centers, and
movie theatres, reports of gun crimes fill the headlines of newspapers and nightly news …

This article explores how white working-class women are figured as the constitutive limit–in
proximity–to national public morality. It is argued that four processes: increased ambivalence …

Restorative justice is one of the most talked about developments in the field of crime and
justice. Its advocates and practitioners argue that state punishment, society's customary …

Comprehensive, critical and accessible, Criminology: A Sociological Introduction offers an
authoritative overview of the study of criminology, from early theoretical perspectives to …

The sevenfold increase in the incarceration rate between the early 1970s and 2010 is
implicated in race differences in, among others, health (Massoglia, 2008), marriage rates …

In America today, one in every hundred adults is behind bars. As our prison population has
exploded,'law and order'interest groups have also grown--in numbers and political clout. In …