In 1995, Sampson & Wilson assessed the state of knowledge on race and violence and set
forth an approach for future research. We review macrostructural analyses of race, ethnicity …

This article reviews what we have learned about social structure and homicide during the
last 30 years, paying close attention to empirical tests of subculture, strain (both absolute …

Facing the Unexpected presents the wealth of information derived from disasters around the
world over the past 25 years. The authors explore how these findings can improve disaster …

This article suggests that American sociology has developed a de facto tradition in the
sociology of the marked that devotes greater epistemological attention to “politically salient” …

Criminology: Explaining Crime and Its Context, Ninth Edition, is a highly acclaimed textbook
offering a broad perspective on criminological theory. It provides students of criminology and …

Latino Homicide is the first empirically based, but readable book for courses to counter the
conventional wisdom that immigrant populations only contribute crime to their communities …

A good deal of research in recent years has revisited the relationship between immigration
and violent crime. Various scholars have suggested that, contrary to the claims of the classic …

This article explores several issues pertaining to the nature of dominant group ethnicity in
the United States. Dominant group ethnic identity tends to be less visible and less salient as …

Why do some conflicts escalate into violence while others dissipate harmlessly? Under what
circumstances will people kill, and why? While homicide has been viewed largely in the …

This study seeks to identify risk factors for psychiatric disorders that may explain differences
in nativity effects among adult Latinos in the USA. We evaluate whether factors related to the …