While the COVID-19 pandemic forced millions of people to stay home and minimize their
social contacts, newspaper reports worldwide raised concerns as they reported an …

Winner of the 2009 Ruth Benedict Prize for Outstanding Monograph from the Society of
Lesbian and Gay Anthropologists Winner of the 2010 Distinguished Book Award from the …

Honor killing is a serious social problem in some countries that is yet to be adequately
explained and addressed. We start with an overview of the conceptualization of this …

Rural crime is a fast growing area of interest among scholars in criminology. From studies of
agricultural crime in Australia, to violence against women in Appalachia America, to …

Intimate partner violence (IPV) is a pervasive social problem that affects victims, families,
and communities. Beginning with the acknowledgment of this phenomenon as a social …

Using data from the UK Community Life Survey, we examine the relationship between social
integration and subjective wellbeing. We measure social integration along various …

While juvenile homicide garnered a tremendous amount of attention from the general public,
the media, and policymakers around 1990, macro-level research examining intercommunity …

Images of community in criminological thought--Community as socially disorganized--
Community as a system--Community as the truly disadvantaged--Community as a criminal …

Woman abuse varies across intimate relationship categories (eg, marriage, divorce,
separation). However, it is unclear whether relationship status variations in violence against …

Drawing on the civic community literature, this article explicates a theoretical model to
explain variation in rates of violence across rural communities. It is hypothesized that rural …