Sociology News

David Pyrooz published an article (with James Densley) in the British Journal of Criminology , “Pulling Back the Curtain on the California Gang Database: Evidence of Racial, Ethnic, and Gender Disparities Among 222 Law Enforcement Agencies.”

Don Grant and co-authors published a new article in Nature Communications. It highlights how, since the signing of the Paris Agreement, power plants throughout the world have been burning fossil fuels faster in anticipation of future climate policies that could render carbon reserves unusable.

The Population Association of American (PAA) recently recognized Rick Rogers as an Honored Colleague.

Congratulations to Jason Boardman for winning the BFA Award in Excellence in Research, Scholarly & Creative Work!

Dan Simon has published a chapter from his dissertation (co-authored with Ryan Masters), "Institutional Failures as Structural Determinants of Suicide: The Opioid Epidemic and the Great Recession in the United States," in the Journal of Health and Social Behavior.

Amanda Stevenson received the first Early Career Award for North America from the International Union for the Scientific Study of Population

Leslie Irvine has a new publication: Irvine, Leslie. 2023. “Our ‘Zoological Connections’ and Why They Matter.” Sociological Forum. http://doi.org/10.1111/socf.12961

Jose Sanchez and David Pyrooz published the following article in Health & Justice – “The COVID-19 pandemic and operational challenges, impacts, and lessons learned: A multi-methods study of U.S. prison systems”

Skye Niles , Shawhin Roudbari, and Santina Contreras co-authored a new paper published in Sociology of Race and Ethnicity , "Neoliberal Multiculturalism and Changing Colonial Racial Hierarchies in International Development." This paper is an offshoot of Skye's third year paper research. https://doi.org/10.1177/23326492231214450