Reviewing recent research on poverty in the United States, we derive a conceptual
framework with three main characteristics. First, poverty is multidimensional, compounding …

This article synthesizes knowledge on the role of relationships and key macro and micro-
contexts—poverty, racism, families, communities, schools, and peers—in supporting and/or …

The new 2022 edition of the most widely taught deviance text brings us into a changing
political era. A new chapter on political deviance includes a section that defines political …

American cities today are simultaneously the same and different from Wilson's classic
portrayal in The Truly Disadvantaged ([1987] 2012), first published over 30 years ago …

Scholars in several fields, including quantitative methodologists, legal scholars, and
theoretically oriented criminologists, have launched robust debates about the fairness of …

PREVIOUS chapters have emphasized how the declining city was marginalized by fleeing
capital and people. The central point of those chapters was that these two types of flight …

This paper examines the racial ecology of lead exposure as a form of environmental
inequity, one with both historical and contemporary significance. Drawing on comprehensive …

In “Toward a Theory of Race, Crime, and Urban Inequality,” Sampson and Wilson (1995)
argued that racial disparities in violent crime are attributable in large part to the persistent …

In Addicted to Incarceration, author Travis C. Pratt uses an evidence-based approach to
explore the consequences of what he terms America's" addiction to incarceration." …

Many people want to help bring about changes in their neighborhoods, workplaces, and
communities. Leaders and scholars of change efforts are likewise eager for insights into …