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Great American City

Chicago and the Enduring Neighborhood Effect

by Robert J. Sampson ...

This "landmark work in urban sociology" examines the influence of neighborhoods on social phenomena and in our lives (Claude Fischer, City & Community).For over fifty years numerous public intellectuals and social theorists have insisted that community is dead. Some would have us believe that we act solely as individuals choosing our own fates regardless of our surroundings, while other theories ... Read more

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This "landmark work in urban sociology" examines the influence of neighborhoods on social phenomena and in our lives (Claude Fischer, City & Community).For over fifty years numerous public intellectuals and social theorists have insisted that community is dead. Some would have us believe that we act solely as individuals choosing our own fates regardless of our surroundings, while other theories
... Read more
Great American City

Chicago and the Enduring Neighborhood Effect

by Robert J. Sampson ...

Great American City demonstrates the powerfully enduring impact of place.Based on one of the most ambitious studies in the history of social science, Robert J. Sampson's Great American City presents the fruits of over a decade's research to support an argument that we all feel and experience every day: life is decisively shaped by your neighborhood.Engaging with the streets and neighborhoods of ... Read more

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Great American City demonstrates the powerfully enduring impact of place.Based on one of the most ambitious studies in the history of social science, Robert J. Sampson's Great American City presents the fruits of over a decade's research to support an argument that we all feel and experience every day: life is decisively shaped by your neighborhood.Engaging with the streets and neighborhoods of
... Read more
The City

by Robert E. Park, Ernest W. Burgess ...

First published in 1925, The City is a trailblazing text in urban history, urban sociology, and urban studies. Its innovative combination of ethnographic observation and social science theory epitomized the Chicago school of sociology. Robert E. Park, Ernest W. Burgess, and their collaborators were among the first to document the interplay between urban individuals and larger social structures and ... Read more

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First published in 1925, The City is a trailblazing text in urban history, urban sociology, and urban studies. Its innovative combination of ethnographic observation and social science theory epitomized the Chicago school of sociology. Robert E. Park, Ernest W. Burgess, and their collaborators were among the first to document the interplay between urban individuals and larger social structures and
... Read more

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Marked by Time

How Social Change Has Transformed Crime and the Life Trajectories of Young Americans

by Robert J. Sampson ...

A leading sociologist’s groundbreaking three-decade study challenges outdated views of crime and character, revealing that traditional risk factors alone poorly predict children’s futures.Between 1970 and 2020, the United States experienced a dramatic rise in crime and incarceration, followed by an unexpected decline. Along with plummeting violence came reductions in substance use, car accidents, ... Read more

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A leading sociologist’s groundbreaking three-decade study challenges outdated views of crime and character, revealing that traditional risk factors alone poorly predict children’s futures.Between 1970 and 2020, the United States experienced a dramatic rise in crime and incarceration, followed by an unexpected decline. Along with plummeting violence came reductions in substance use, car accidents,
... Read more
Shared Beginnings, Divergent Lives

Delinquent Boys to Age 70

by John H. Laub, Robert J. Sampson ...

This book analyzes newly collected data on crime and social development up to age 70 for 500 men who were remanded to reform school in the 1940s. Born in Boston in the late 1920s and early 1930s, these men were the subjects of the classic study Unraveling Juvenile Delinquency by Sheldon and Eleanor Glueck (1950). Updating their lives at the close of the twentieth century, and connecting their ... Read more

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This book analyzes newly collected data on crime and social development up to age 70 for 500 men who were remanded to reform school in the 1940s. Born in Boston in the late 1920s and early 1930s, these men were the subjects of the classic study Unraveling Juvenile Delinquency by Sheldon and Eleanor Glueck (1950). Updating their lives at the close of the twentieth century, and connecting their
... Read more
Community Justice

An Emerging Field

by Gordon Bazemore, Susan F. Bennett, Barbara Boland, John Braithwaite, Michael E. Buerger, David M. Chavis, Todd R. Clear, Catherine M. Coles, Amitai Etzioni, Randolph M. Grinc, Suzanne Goldsmith-Hirsch, George L. Kelling, Stephen Mugford, Dennis P. Rosenbaum, Robert J. Sampson, Wesley G. Skogan, William Julius Wilson ...

Series series Rights & Responsibilities
Community justice is a phenomenon of growing interest among academics, policy makers, and criminal justice practitioners. The term reflects the increasing collaboration between criminal justice agencies and communities in the joint pursuit of public safety and a less tangible, but no less significant, pursuit of justice for victims, offenders, and all community members affected by crime. In this ... Read more

$71.29 USD

Community justice is a phenomenon of growing interest among academics, policy makers, and criminal justice practitioners. The term reflects the increasing collaboration between criminal justice agencies and communities in the joint pursuit of public safety and a less tangible, but no less significant, pursuit of justice for victims, offenders, and all community members affected by crime. In this
... Read more
Research on Schools, Neighborhoods and Communities

Toward Civic Responsibility

by Angela E. Arzubiaga, Miguel Ceja, Anna K. Chmielewski, Davido Dupree, Jacquelyn Duran, Evellyn Elizondo, Ingrid Gould Ellen, Suzanne Fegley, George Galster, Olivia Golden, Courtney Grzesikowski0, Kris D. Gutierrez1, Larry V. Hedges2, Kathryn Hill3, Mark Hogrebe4, Nathan Jones5, John Logan6, Jill McNew-Birren7, Jerome E. Morris8, Sheri Notaro9, Deirdre Oakley0, Katherine O'Regan1, Stephen W. Raudenbush2, Douglas Ready3, sean f. reardon4, Allison Roda5, Robert J. Sampson6, Amy Ellen Schwartz7, Margaret Beale Spencer8, Leanna Stiefel9, Brian Tinsley0, Anne Velasco1, Miya Tamiko Warner2, Amy Stuart Wells3, Terrenda White4, Brian Williams5, Gail Wolfe6, John T. Yun7, William F. Tate IV9, Walter Allen0, Dr. Shirley Brice Heath1, Carol D. Lee2, Henry M. Levin, Ph.D.3, Roslyn Arlin Mickelson4, Michael A. Olivas5, Ronald Walters6 ...

Research on Schools, Neighborhoods, and Communities: Toward Civic Responsibility focuses on research and theoretical developments related to the role of geography in education, human development, and health. William F. Tate IV, the Edward Mallinckrodt Distinguished University Professor in Arts & Sciences at Washington University in St. Louis and former President of the American Educational ... Read more

$97.19 USD

Research on Schools, Neighborhoods, and Communities: Toward Civic Responsibility focuses on research and theoretical developments related to the role of geography in education, human development, and health. William F. Tate IV, the Edward Mallinckrodt Distinguished University Professor in Arts & Sciences at Washington University in St. Louis and former President of the American Educational
... Read more
Human Development and Criminal Behavior

New Ways of Advancing Knowledge

by Kenneth Adams, Michael Tonry, Lloyd E. Ohlin, Felton Earls, David C. Rowe, Robert J. Sampson, Richard E. Tremblay, David P. Farrington ...

Series series Behavioral Science and Psychology (R0)
$49.49 USD
The Cultural Matrix

Understanding Black Youth

by Andrew Clarkwest, Rajeev Dehejia, Thomas DeLeire, Kathryn Edin, Amy E. Foran, Simone Ispa-Landa, Alexandra A. Killewald, Joseph C. Krupnick, Erzo F.P. Luttmer, Wayne Marshall, Jody Miller, Josh Mitchell, Jackie Rivers, James E. Rosenbaum, Janet Rosenbaum, Peter Rosenblatt, Robert J. Sampson, Pam Schuetz, Tommie Shelby, Jennifer Stephan, Van C. Tran, Sudhir Alladi Venkatesh, Christopher Winship, Robert G. Wood, Queenie Zhu ...

The Cultural Matrix seeks to unravel a uniquely American paradox: the socioeconomic crisis, segregation, and social isolation of disadvantaged black youth, on the one hand, and their extraordinary integration and prominence in popular culture on the other. Despite school dropout rates over 40 percent, a third spending time in prison, chronic unemployment, and endemic violence, black youth are ... Read more

$23.09 USD

The Cultural Matrix seeks to unravel a uniquely American paradox: the socioeconomic crisis, segregation, and social isolation of disadvantaged black youth, on the one hand, and their extraordinary integration and prominence in popular culture on the other. Despite school dropout rates over 40 percent, a third spending time in prison, chronic unemployment, and endemic violence, black youth are
... Read more
Challenging Criminological Theory

The Legacy of Ruth Rosner Kornhauser

Edited by Francis T. Cullen, Pamela Wilcox, Brendan D. Dooley, Robert J. Sampson ...

Series series Advances in Criminological Theory
This volume is divided into five sections that, when taken together, offer an informative account of the impact of Ruth Rosner Kornhauser's Social Sources of Delinquency on the development of American criminological thought. This classic book was her major contribution to the field.Section I tells the story of Kornhauser's brief but influential academic career. Section II probes deeply into the ... Read more

$59.99 USD

This volume is divided into five sections that, when taken together, offer an informative account of the impact of Ruth Rosner Kornhauser's Social Sources of Delinquency on the development of American criminological thought. This classic book was her major contribution to the field.Section I tells the story of Kornhauser's brief but influential academic career. Section II probes deeply into the
... Read more
After Life Imprisonment

Reentry in the Era of Mass Incarceration

by Marieke Liem ...

Series Book 13 - New Perspectives in Crime, Deviance, and Law
One out of every ten prisoners in the United States is serving a life sentence—roughly 130,000 people. While some have been sentenced to life in prison without parole, the majority of prisoners serving ‘life’ will be released back into society. But what becomes of those people who reenter the everyday world after serving life in prison?In After Life Imprisonment, Marieke Liem carefully examines ... Read more

$24.69 USD

One out of every ten prisoners in the United States is serving a life sentence—roughly 130,000 people. While some have been sentenced to life in prison without parole, the majority of prisoners serving ‘life’ will be released back into society. But what becomes of those people who reenter the everyday world after serving life in prison?In After Life Imprisonment, Marieke Liem carefully examines
... Read more
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City, The

by Robert E. Park, Ernest W. Burgess, Robert J. Sampson ...

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First published in 1925, The City is a trailblazing text in urban history, urban sociology, and urban studies. Its innovative combination of ethnographic observation and social science theory epitomized the Chicago school of sociology. Robert E. Park, Ernest W. Burgess, and their collaborators were among the first to document the interplay between urban individuals and larger social structures and ... Read more

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First published in 1925, The City is a trailblazing text in urban history, urban sociology, and urban studies. Its innovative combination of ethnographic observation and social science theory epitomized the Chicago school of sociology. Robert E. Park, Ernest W. Burgess, and their collaborators were among the first to document the interplay between urban individuals and larger social structures and
... Read more

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