The rise of mass incarceration in the United States is one of the most critical outcomes of the
last half-century. Incarceration Nation offers the most compelling explanation of this outcome …

Black civilians are more likely to be stopped by police than white civilians net of relevant
factors. Less is known about whether or not racial inequalities exist in police use of force …

Group threat theory has stimulated an impressive number of studies over the course of the
past several decades. Our review takes stock of this literature, focusing on core issues of …

With the possible exception of terrorists, sex offenders in the United States experience a
greater degree of punishment and restriction than any other offender group, nonviolent or …

Imaginémonos que México estuviera gobernado por una dictadura que haya asesinado a
cien mil personas en los últimos tres lustros. Por un régimen que torturara, secuestrara y …

As violence and crime within and around US schools has drawn increased attention to
school security, police, surveillance cameras, and other measures have grown …

The transfer of authority over the supervision of inmate populations from state and federal
governments to private corporations is one of the most significant contemporary …

The concept of group threat—also known as social threat, racial threat, or minority threat—
that motivates substantial criminological inquiry, both theoretical and empirical, have its …

Objectives Using the cumulative disadvantage theoretical framework, the current study
explores whether school suspension and expulsion provide an indirect path through which …

Research shows that Americans who hold strongly to a myth about America's Christian
heritage—what is called “Christian nationalism”—tend to draw rigid boundaries around …