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Looking for some reading material for your winter break? We’ve got you covered. This week we’ve got research on victim rights movements, the relationship between a country’s use of cash and robbery rates, and how cleaning up neighborhoods could help reduce violence. We\u2019ll also be rolling out our *Best of 2018* over the next few weeks, so you can catch up on all the great posts from the year. Enjoy!<\/p>\n
“The Power, Privilege, and Politics of Victim Rights Movements<\/a>,” by\u00a0Caity Curry<\/a>. Recent debates over\u00a0Marsy\u2019s Law<\/a>\u00a0highlight\u00a0two key lines of research, the power of victim rights movements in the United States and the racial and gender privilege underlying perceptions of victimhood.<\/p>\n “Show Me the Money!<\/a>” by Isabel Arriagada<\/a>. New research in\u00a0Justice Quarterly\u00a0<\/em>finds that countries with higher rates of cashlessness also have lower levels of street crime.<\/p>\n *~* Best of 2018 *~*<\/p>\n “Best of 2018: More Than Just a Walk in the Park<\/a>,” by\u00a0Brooke Chambers<\/a>. Recent work in\u00a0Sociological Theory\u00a0<\/em>finds that going out in public is influenced by social factors like identity and bias.<\/p>\n “How \u201cCleaning and Greening\u201d Can Reduce Gun Violence<\/a>,” by\u00a0Caity Curry<\/a>.\u00a0A\u00a0recent study<\/a>\u00a0featured<\/a> in\u00a0Huffington Post<\/i>\u00a0shows that this simple strategy of cleaning up vacant lots may have some far-reaching impacts on reducing crime.<\/p>\n “Package Pirates & The Rules of the Gift<\/a>,” by\u00a0Evan Stewart<\/a>.<\/p>\n “Harvesters of the White Desert<\/a>,” by\u00a0Sugato Mukherjee<\/a>.<\/p>\n “A Haunted Generation Remembers<\/a>,” by\u00a0Shruti Devgan<\/a>.<\/p>\n “Dialogue Across Difference<\/a>,” by Allison J. Steinke<\/a>.<\/p>\n Looking for some reading material for your winter break? We’ve got you covered. This week we’ve got research on victim rights movements, the relationship between a country’s use of cash and robbery rates, and how cleaning up neighborhoods could help reduce violence. We\u2019ll also be rolling out our *Best of 2018* over the next few […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2020,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17672],"tags":[33309,12722,12802],"class_list":["post-5410","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-friday-roundup","tag-friday-roundup","tag-roundup","tag-weekly-roundup"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/editors\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5410","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/editors\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/editors\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/editors\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2020"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/editors\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5410"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/editors\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5410\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5414,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/editors\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5410\/revisions\/5414"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/editors\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5410"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/editors\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5410"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/editors\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5410"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}Discoveries<\/a>:<\/h3>\n
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