Sociology News

David Pyrooz published an article in Criminology , titled “Selection, stability, and spuriousness: Testing Gottfredson and Hirschi’s propositions to reinterpret street gangs in self-control perspective,” with coauthors Chris Melde, Donna Coffman, and Ryan Meldrum.

Lori Hunter has had a research dissemination piece published through the Population Reference Bureau. It is titled “Understanding Climate-Related Migration Can Help Policymakers Address Rural Poverty in Low- and Middle-Income Countries”.

Lori Hunter received CARTSS funding for field work related to her collaborative research on rural America. The fieldwork will take place during her sabbatical next academic year.

Jose Sanchez's book review of The Gang Paradox: Inequalities and Miracles on the U.S.-Mexico Border by Robert J. Durán has been published in Rutgers University Criminal Law and Criminal Justice Book Reviews

Dan Simon received a Graduate Student Award ($1,000) from CARTSS in support of his dissertation research. Cograts Dan! Melissa Villarreal and Bertha Bermudez Tapia received 2021 Beverly Sears Graduate Student Grant awards! Congratulations Melissa and Bertha!! Hillary Steinberg completed the Certificate in College Teaching through the Center for Teaching and...

David Pyrooz’s book Competing for Control: Gangs and the Social Order of Prisons was awarded the Outstanding Book Award by the Academy of Criminal Justice Sciences which, along with the ASC, is one of the two major national associations in CCJ.

Irvine, Leslie. 2020. “Pets (Animal/Human relationships).” Blackwell Encyclopedia of Sociology , edited by G. Ritzer. Hoboken NJ: John Wiley and Sons.

Elisabeth Dowling Root, Jane Menken, Bertha Bermúdez Tapia , Alan Zarychta, Tara Grillos, and Krister Andersson's article "Organizations matter in local governance: evidence from health sector", was published in Health Policy and Planning