Government Legitimacy, Social Solidarity, and American Homicide in Historical Perspective …declining or stable rates. In this report, Randolph Roth, professor of history and sociology at The Ohio State University, examines this trend in the context of homicide patterns throughout the…
When Militaries Turn Against Authoritarians: Lessons from Tunisia and the Arab Spring …Gallopin—then a PhD student in sociology at Yale University—hypothesized a radically new understanding of the circumstances that prompt military personnel to move against autocratic leaders they have sworn to protect….
Women’s Employment Status, Coercive Control, and Intimate Partner Violence in Mexico An unresolved issue in the literature on domestic violence is the effect that women’s economic status, and specifically their participation in the labor market, has on their risk of violent…
In Harm’s Way: Violence at the Urban Margins in Contemporary Argentina In Argentina, and elsewhere in Latin America, members of the middle and upper-middle classes tend to be the main spokespeople in public debates around the issue of citizens’public safety (seguridad)….
An Education in Violence: Teaching and Learning to Kill in Central Texas This research examined a relatively new and growing population: people who have obtained concealed handgun licenses and carry their guns with them on a regular basis. Drawing on field work…
HFG Emerging Scholars …Government Expenditures as Structural Determinants of Racial and Ethnic Disparities in Firearm Homicides Matthew Coetzee (Sociology, University of Notre Dame), Rupture and Repair: Community Responses to State Failure and Racial…
Economic Stress and Crime in Japan This research had three main parts. First, I examined the effect of levels of economic stress (income inequality and unemployment) on Japanese crime trends in the forty-seven Japanese prefectures (geographical…
Scrutinizing the Gray Zones: Dynamics of Collective Violence in Contemporary Argentina Close to three hundred stores and supermarkets were looted during week-long food riots in Argentina in December 2001. Thirty-four people were reported dead and hundreds injured. Among the looting crowds,…
Strategic Observers Underground: How They See Trouble and What They Do Next Following Jane Jacobs’s observations of the role of “public characters” as a mechanism for heading off city crime and street violence, we asked just how such individuals actually do their…
Longitudinal and Contextual Analyses of Violent Crime in the European Union The purpose of this research is to explore the extent to which retrenchment in welfare support is related to homicide trends across European countries between 1994 and 2010. Using a…
