Scott J. South and Lei Lei , “Why Are Fewer Young Adults Having Casual Sex?,” Socius, 2021 Young adults are having less casual sex, or sex outside of committed relationships. While sexual activity has decreased for some adults, the drop in sexual activity is even greater  among teenagers and young adults. According to previous studies, […]

Keith L. Hullenaar and Michelle Frisco, “Understanding the Barriers of Violence Victims’ Health Care Use,” Journal of Health and Social Behavior, 2020 Over 3 million Americans were targets, or victims, of violence in 2018. Yet, only half of the targets of nonlethal violence seek formal medical care. Why do some targets of violence avoid medical […]

The United States, with only 5% of the world’s population, incarcerates nearly 20% of the world’s prisoners. At the peak of the mass incarceration era in 2000, one in three Black men was projected to be incarcerated in his lifetime, compared to 1 in 17 White men. The racial disparities of the criminal-legal system are […]

Katherine Beckett and Marc Brydolf-Horwitz, “A kinder, gentler drug war? Race, drugs, and punishment in 21st century America,” Punishment & Society, 2020 In 2019, nearly 72,000 Americans died from a drug overdose — more than car accidents or gun violence. Over 50,000 of those deaths involved opioids. Drug overdose deaths have been on the rise […]

Hanna E. Brown, “Who Is an Indian Child? Institutional Context, Tribal Sovereignty, and Race-Making in Fragmented States,” American Sociological Review, 2020 Originally published November 19, 2020. From 1900 to 1978, between 25 to 35% of American Indian children were forcibly removed from their homes. Federal officials used this practice to colonize indigenous lands and undermine […]