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The Coloniality of Data: Police Databases and the Rationalization of Surveillance from Colonial Vietnam to the Modern Carceral State

open access: yesThe British Journal of Sociology, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Tracing the early adoption of computer gang databases by the Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department and the Los Angeles Police Department in the 1980s to the deployment of computationally‐assisted surveillance during the Vietnam War, this paper uses a genealogical approach to compare surveillance technologies developed across the arc of ...
Christina Hughes
wiley   +1 more source

Family Work Among the Astors

open access: yesThe British Journal of Sociology, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Within classical sociological accounts of capitalism, families are curious remnants of the past. Contemporary elite sociology dismisses the family in a different way: by primarily focusing on individual men. When the family does appear within elite studies, scholars frequently follow a stratification framework, which focuses on the ...
Shamus Khan, Max Besbris, Estela Diaz
wiley   +1 more source

Can prisons move people into better jobs? A look at correctional vocational training programs and sectoral employment outcomes

open access: yesCriminology, EarlyView.
Abstract Three‐quarters of US prisons offer vocational training programs, which aim to place trainees in middle‐skills jobs in specific occupational sectors post‐release. These middle‐skills jobs may more effectively reduce recidivism than the jobs that normally characterize the labor market experience of the formerly incarcerated, yet whether ...
Britte van Tiem
wiley   +1 more source

Statewide sanctuary policies and female homicide rates, 2016–2021

open access: yesCriminology, EarlyView.
Abstract The current study examines whether state immigration enforcement policies, such as sanctuary policies that limit local police cooperation with federal immigration enforcement, are associated with female homicide rates in the United States (2016–2021).
Kaitlin M. Boyle   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Affordances, dread, and online fraud: Exploring and advancing social learning theory in online contexts

open access: yesCriminology, EarlyView.
Abstract We investigate how the affordances of an online context shape the processes of social learning. Using a dataset of more than 11,000 posts from the fraud subdread on the dark web forum Dread, we examine how affordances of platform governance, connectivity, anonymity, invisibility, asynchronicity, and limited oversight influence the components ...
Fangzhou Wang, Timothy Dickinson
wiley   +1 more source

Involvement of Prison Service officers in the organization - selected aspects in the light of empirical research

open access: yesJournal of Modern Science
Objectives The aim of the study was to learn about the degree of organizational commitment of Prison Service officers and their sense of professional prestige and security as significant factors conditioning this commitment.
Dariusz Michał Sarzała   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source

Focused deterrence can reduce crime: A systematic review of randomized controlled trials and quasi‐experiments

open access: yesCriminology &Public Policy, EarlyView.
Abstract Research summary Crime and violence continue to be problems that plague urban areas across the United States and the globe. One key approach for responding to these problems is “focused deterrence” which includes programs that prevent criminal behavior by blending criminal justice, social service, and community‐based action.
Anthony A. Braga   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Is State Tax Policy Associated With State‐Level COVID‐19 Restrictions? La politique fiscale des États est‐elle associée aux restrictions introduites pendant la crise de COVID‐19 ?

open access: yesContemporary Accounting Research, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT During the COVID‐19 pandemic, states imposed restrictions intended to slow the spread of the virus. We investigate whether states' reliance on consumption tax revenue, relative to other tax revenue sources, is associated with the duration of COVID‐19 mobility restrictions.
Nathan C. Goldman   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

The Legal Status of Prison Chaplains and the Violating the Freedom of Conscience and Religion of Incarcerated in Poland

open access: yesStudies in Logic, Grammar and Rhetoric
This study explores the legal regulations constituting the basis for the performance of religious services by prison chaplains in penitentiary institutions, both for a fee and free of charge. This should help to explain the double subordination resulting
Abramowicz Aneta Maria   +1 more
doaj   +1 more source

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