There's a stark and troubling way that incarceration diminishes the ability of a former inmate to empathize with a loved one behind bars, but existing sociological theories fail to capture it, Vanderbilt University sociologists ...
Social Sciences
Jun 2, 2016
0
14
A new study reveals that while homicide victimization rates declined for whites, blacks, and Hispanics in the United States from 1990-2010, the drop was much more precipitous for the two minority groups.
Social Sciences
Mar 31, 2016
0
2
The U.S. incarcerates a greater proportion of its population than any other country in the world, with dire social and economic consequences for the incarcerated, their children and those who work in the criminal justice ...
Social Sciences
Mar 16, 2016
0
10
The chances of incarceration in America are always higher for blacks than for whites or Hispanics, regardless of their level of wealth, according to a new study led by Khaing Zaw of Duke University in the U.S. In addition, ...
Social Sciences
Mar 10, 2016
6
14
Long known as the world's biggest jailer, the United States is experimenting with prison reform. California's prison downsizing experiment is the nation's largest. But Republican states are the ones leading the way, according ...
Social Sciences
Mar 2, 2016
0
9
A new study highlights the complicated spillover effects of incarceration on the quality of relationships.
Social Sciences
Mar 16, 2015
0
6
New research from Rice University's Baker Institute for Public Policy found that states with a large minority population tend to incarcerate more people.
Social Sciences
Oct 14, 2014
0
0
While proud classmates bring parents to school for Career Day, kids with imprisoned dads incur a double whammy: They are significantly more likely to be held back to repeat a grade, a Cornell and University of California, ...
Social Sciences
Sep 19, 2014
0
0
The incarceration rate has nearly quadrupled since the U.S. declared a war on drugs, researchers say. Along with that, racial disparities abound. Incarceration rates for black Americans are more than six times higher than ...
Social Sciences
Jun 25, 2014
0
1
(Phys.org)—For high school students with emotional and behavioral problems, the stakes couldn't be much higher: With dropout rates higher than 50 percent, members of this group who leave school before graduation often endure ...
Social Sciences
Dec 5, 2012
0
0
