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University of Georgia
Department of Sociology
CrimRxiv Consortium, Founding Member
The Department of Sociology at the University of Georgia emphasizes research on crime, law and deviance. Their faculty and graduate students embrace a variety of methodologies, including ethnography, experiments, and secondary data analysis. Their research is interdisciplinary, with collaborators in other fields and disciplines. Follow them on Twitter @SociologyUGA.
Published: Sep 06, 2024
Firearm violence is a leading cause of morbidity and mortality among young men in the US. While an association of alcohol availability with violence is well established, the mechanisms through which it operates are unclear, and the role of alcohol availability in firearm ...
Published: Jul 29, 2024
The Department of Sociology at the University of Georgia invites applications for two Assistant Professor positions to begin August 1, 2025. For both positions we will consider exceptional candidates at the early Associate Professor level. The first position is in the area of ...
Published: Jun 19, 2024
Legal financial obligations (LFOs) are financial penalties imposed by U.S. criminal courts that generate disproportionate negative effects for poor and minoritized individuals and communities. In this visualization, the authors use court administrative data for all criminal ...
Published: Jun 17, 2024
The crimmigration literature has primarily focused on the way that the enforcement of civil immigration law by criminal justice agencies has adversely affected immigrants. This literature has highlighted harmful policing practices and punitive policies that restrict immigrant ...
Published: May 10, 2024
Two important issues constrain the neighborhood effects literature. First, most prior research examining neighborhood effects on aggression and self-reported violence uses a point in time (i.e., cross-sectional) estimate of neighborhood disadvantage even though the duration ...
Published: Apr 12, 2024
The multiple benefits of family-based treatment (FBT) used in substance use disorder (SUD) treatment include increased treatment engagement, better treatment outcomes, and cost-effectiveness compared to other behavioral health treatment modalities. However, the prevalence and ...
Published: Feb 13, 2024
Human trafficking is a crime that is often shaped by violence, particularly for women who are trafficked. Additionally, trafficking survivors often report severe psychological distress, though research on the causes of this psychological distress is lacking, as there is ...
Published: Jan 28, 2024
The goal of this study was to examine region-specific structural covariates of homicide rates in Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC). LAC nations possess 8% of the global population but 33% of homicides, yet the region receives limited attention in studies of social ...
Published: Dec 13, 2023
Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC) possesses 8% of the global population but approximately one-third of global homicides. The region also exhibits high per capita alcohol consumption, risky drinking patterns, and a heterogeneous mix of beverage preferences. Despite this, ...
Published: Dec 05, 2023
Understanding how the various manifestations of racism in contemporary U.S. society impact developmental outcomes for Black youth remains an important research endeavor. A growing body of research indicates that interpersonal racial discrimination is a risk factor for ...
Published: Nov 13, 2023
A key issue in criminology is to account for variation in rates of violence across time and place. An important variable largely neglected in the literature is individualism. Building on theoretical ideas proposed by Durkheim, Black, and Baumgartner, we illustrate the role ...
Published: Aug 08, 2023
The problem of intimate partner violence (IPV) and the role of various organizations—including shelters, courts, law enforcement, and child protective services, among others—is a pervasive one affecting every demographic in society. The issue is compounded by structures of ...
Published: Jun 30, 2023
The number of cross-national homicide studies is increasing rapidly. Many scholars, however, do not consider the details of how individual nations and the four main centralized homicide data sources—raw estimates from the World Health Organization (WHO) Mortality Database, ...
Published: May 24, 2023
Research on incarceration and mental health from a deprivation perspective has focused primarily on incarcerated men, rendering the links between prison deprivations and women’s mental health largely unknown. Previous research indicates, however, that women experience prison ...
Published: May 05, 2023
How doctors police mistakes among themselves varies. Physicians support, tolerate, avoid, ridicule, confront, report, and banish colleagues for errors. What explains this variation? Drawing on semi-structured interviews with 43 clinicians from two academic health systems, ...
Published: Apr 23, 2023
In this article, we report the results of a randomized controlled experiment that examines how exposure to information about a global pandemic from Asia affects white Americans’ prosocial behavior towards white, black, and Asian Americans. We find that when exposed to a new ...
Published: Jan 15, 2023
A produção científica muito avançou sobre o que se conhece da judicialização da saúde, especialmente suas causas normativas, institucionais. Pouco sabemos, contudo, sobre as causas sociais que levam pessoas a procurar o sistema de justiça. Este estudo contribui com esta ...
Published: Dec 28, 2022
This study examines how growth in the population of former prisoners affects rates of communicable diseases such as tuberculosis, syphilis, chlamydia, and HIV. We estimate state-level fixed effects count models showing how the former prisoner population affected communicable ...
Published: Dec 12, 2022
The Coronavirus pandemic has affected Latin America deeply. The effects of the pandemic are reverberating most acutely across the broken prison systems in this region with searing inequalities. Most of what is happening now inside prison walls could and should have been ...
Published: Dec 12, 2022
What does it mean to exist as a Black person in a community that is notorious in its anti-Black reputation? In the U.S., those who identify as Afro-Latinx, do so at the intersection of a Latinx community that often rejects them and an African American community that does ...
Published: Sep 20, 2022
The authors explore whether mandatory, universal, in-person sexual misconduct training achieves its goals to build knowledge about sexual assault and harassment and increase intentions to report episodes of assault. The authors present results from three studies with quasi-...
Published: Aug 08, 2022
QAnon is a wide-scoped conspiracy theory that rose to significant prominence, particularly online, since its 2017 inception with pseudononymous posts made to the website 4Chan by a self-described “Q Clearance Patriot” or “Q” as they are often referred. Significant scholarly ...
Published: Jan 01, 2022
Monetary sanctions are an integral and increasingly debated feature of the American criminal legal system. Emerging research, including that featured in this volume, offers important insight into the law governing monetary sanctions, how they are levied, and how their ...
Published: Jul 27, 2020
Justice Quarterly; https://doi.org/10.1080/07418825.2020.1729392
