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

The 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

"Covering For Our City Blight": Kudzu and Public Health in Atlanta, 1979-1994. [PDF]

J Hist Med Allied Sci
Reilly K.
europepmc   +1 more source

Family Work Among the Astors

The 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

Increasing opportunities for community input in harm reduction program development using iterative engagement. [PDF]

Harm Reduct J
Wagner NM, Carlson JA, Bean M, Wineland A, Blum J, Cardona SA, Covarrubias S, Kempe A, King AC, Huebschmann AG.   +9 more
europepmc   +1 more source

Beyond Distinction: Private Art Museums and Their Versatile Role for Elites' (Self)Legitimization Discourses

The British Journal of Sociology, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT The 2000s have witnessed a significant, worldwide boom in new art museums founded by private, wealthy collectors. While the arts have long been a key arena for the remaking of elite distinction and the reproduction of inequalities, this surge in private museums has sparked much controversy.
Sara de Andrade Silva, Kristina Kolbe, Olav Velthuis   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Expanding the definition of merit in admissions: comprehensive excellence responsive to population health needs. [PDF]

CMAJ
Anderson M, Richardson L.
europepmc   +1 more source

Unequal Family Ties, Wealth Transmission and Social Mobility Among Congolese Traders in Kinshasa

The British Journal of Sociology, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Based on ethnographic fieldwork among Congolese traders operating in Kinshasa's urban economy, this article examines how differentiated family ties and wealth transmission shape social mobility and the intergenerational reproduction of inequality. We show that family support is neither uniform nor equally productive: its effects depend on both
Héritier Mesa, Joël Noret
wiley   +1 more source

Evaluation of the level of responsibility in pedestrian crashes using machine learning algorithms. [PDF]

Sci Rep
Moreno-Sanfélix A, Gragera-Peña FC, Jaramillo-Morán MA.   +2 more
europepmc   +1 more source

Producing Fraud at the Welfare‐Migration Nexus: Migrant Families and Children's Social Care

The British Journal of Sociology, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This article interrogates the production of ‘fraud’ at the interface between welfare and migration regimes. Taking the welfare micropublic of children's social care in the UK as a case study, we focus on encounters between migrant families subject to the ‘no recourse to public funds’ immigration condition and London local authorities.
Eve Dickson, Rachel Rosen
wiley   +1 more source

Implementation of harm reduction strategies in criminal-legal systems: a scoping review of the literature. [PDF]

Health Justice
Johnson KL, Patel SV, Cance J, Rodriguez Borja I, Christopher MC, Counts J, Desjardins M, Philbrick SM, Beletsky L, Ray B.   +9 more
europepmc   +1 more source