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Recent Publications

Brown, Elizabeth K., & Silver, J. R. (2022). The moral foundations of crime control in American presidential platforms, 1968-2016. Punishment & Society, 24(2), 169-220.

Wozniak, Kevin H., Pickett, J.T., and Brown, Elizabeth K. (2022). Judging hardworking robbers and lazy thieves: An experimental test of act- vs. person-centered punitiveness and perceived redeemability. Justice Quarterly.

Pontell, Henry N., Jianhong Liu, Christopher Contreras, Soi Wan (Donna) Leong, and Li Huang (2022). “Occupational Crimes in Casinos: Employee Theft in Macau, China.” Crime, Law and Social Change.

Nevin, Andrew D., Yimin Chen, Anabel Quan-Haase, and Shuzhe Yang. 2022. “Key Considerations in the Interpretation of Digital Trace Data.” In Handbook of Social Media Research Methods (2nd ed). London, UK: Sage.

Rodriquez, Jason, Anmol Gupta, Staci Ballard, and Gary Siperstein. 2023. “Positive Identity Development through Community Engagement Among Emergent Adults with Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities.” Journal of Applied Research in Intellectual Disabilities.

Siperstein, Gary N., Staci C. Ballard, Holly E. Jacobs, Jason Rodriquez, and Timothy P. Shriver. 2022. “’A Place for Everybody’: Students’ Perspectives on Inclusive Behavior in School.” Educational Researcher.

Jason Rodriquez, Anika Lanser, Holly E. Jacobs, Ashlyn Smith, Sharbari Ganguly. 2022. “When the Normative is Formative: Parents’ Perceptions of the Impacts of Inclusive Sports Programs.” International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health. 19 (17):10889.

Rodriquez, Jason. 2022. “Reconfiguring the social organization of work in the intensive care unit: Changed relationships and new roles during COVID-19. Social Science & Medicine (2022): 115600.

Solari, Cinzia D. 2023. “Gender, Modernity, and Russia’s War on Ukraine.” Footnotes: A Magazine of the American Sociological Association 51(1).

Radhakrishnan, Smitha and Cinzia D. Solari (equal coauthors). Forthcoming, 2023. The Gender Order of Neoliberalism. Polity Press.

Stewart, Evan, Penny Edgell, and Jack Delehanty. 2023. “Public Religion and Gendered Attitudes.” Social Problems.

Stewart, Evan. 2022. “Interpreting Nonreligion.” Pages 228-249 in Interpreting Religion, edited by Erin Johnston and Vikas Singh. Bristol, UK: Bristol University Press.

Kucinskas, Jaime, and Evan Stewart (Equal Authorship). 2022. “Selfish or Substituting Spirituality? Clarifying the Relationship between Spiritual Practice and Political Engagement.” American Sociological Review.