This essay is an exploration of the political rise of politician Edward W. Brooke and his impact on the Republican Party and the black…
The most contentious aspect of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (ACA) is the individual mandate requiring that most…
David E. Campbell and Robert D. Putnam ask how America can simultaneously be religiously devout, religiously diverse, and religiously…
This paper summarises the findings of an evaluation of the Programme of Advancement through Health and Education (PATH), a conditional cash…
Although the positive association between religiosity and life satisfaction is well documented, much theoretical and empirical controversy…
This study examines the stability of religious preference among people who claim no religious preference in national surveys (i.e.,…
In this
article the author examines aspects of U.S. housing policy in the
aftermath of the global financial crisis of 2008-09. The…
In 2007, a total of 12,632 people in the United States were murdered with firearms, and it is estimated that another 48,676 were treated in…
An introduction is presented for this issue of the "Journal of
Quantitative Criminology" which includes articles about crime trends in…