Since the mid-1970s, the United States has experienced an enormous rise in incarceration
and accompanying increases in returning prisoners and in postrelease community …

Objective: Accumulating evidence implicates social context in the etiology of psychosis. One
important line of epidemiologic research pointing to a potentially causal role of social context …

For the middle class and the affluent, local ties seem to matter less and less these days, but
in the inner city, your life can be irrevocably shaped by what block you live on. Living the …

America's high incarceration rates are a well-known facet of contemporary political
conversations. Mentioned far less often is what happens to the nearly 700,000 former …

This study contributes to the debate on the meaning of community and sense of community,
and attempts to clarify the relationship between sense of community and civic and political …

Interdependence is ubiquitous and often central across comparative politics. Indeed, as the
authors show first, theoretically, any situation involving externalities from one unit's actions …

Research on individual social capital and physical activity has tended to focus on the
association among physical activity, generalized trust, and social participation. Less is …

Exploring the debate within social sciences on the consequences of ethnic diversity for
social cohesion and the production of public goods, this book draws on extensive survey …

Prior research frequently observes a positive cross-sectional relationship between various
neighborhood structural characteristics and crime rates, and attributes the causal …

This book aims to make sense of the recent reform of neighbourhood institutions in urban
China. It builds on the observation that the late 1990s saw a comeback of the state in urban …