By Adam Baird

Globally, 90% of firearms homicides are committed by men, and men also make up the vast majority of the victims. The highest rates of homicide are mainly found in cities in the Americas (including the Caribbean) and southern Africa, mainly in cities. “Men killing men” disproportionately affects young people in the Global South who live in precarious economic circumstances. This has been the consistent demographic of lethal armed violence for decades.

If men are at the centre of the global armed violence epidemic, it clearly has something to do with their gender. The report explains that when frustrated young men in contexts of persistent poverty gain easy access to small arms and ammunition, it creates a significant risk of an epidemic of lethal violence. This prompts the question: What work is being undertaken with men using a masculinities focus to prevent armed violence? The answer, in short, is none. Efforts to reduce armed violence that do not consider masculinities  will only have a limited effect.

The report suggests that greater debate about this issue is required and that the United Nations can lead progress by developing initiatives in collaboration with Member States, academia and civil society partners. However, to achieve this goal, greater advocacy, political support and funding are vital. 

UNIDIR, Geneva, 2025. 36p.

By National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine.

The number of incidents involving disruptive, threatening, or violent behavior in commercial airports has increased in recent years. However, much of the response to these incidents has been focused on addressing behavior in flight, leaving airport operators with limited guidelines tailored to the airport environment.

ACRP Research Report 280: Reducing and Managing Disruptive and Unruly Behavior in Airports: A Guide, from TRB's Airport Cooperative Research Program, presents a practical guide for reducing and responding to incidents of disruptive, threatening, or violent behavior in an airport setting. The guide examines the topic holistically and offers a structured approach to understanding root causes, prevention and mitigation strategies, coordinated response, and post incident analysis. 

Washington, DC: The National Academies Press. 2025. 100p

Domestic violence against women remains alarmingly widespread in the EU, with Eurostat data showing that one in three of the 228 million women are affected. The European Economic and Social Committee (EESC) has long championed efforts to combat this abuse, first raising the issue in a 2006 opinion. More recently, it helped shape the EU’s first-ever law to protect women from domestic violence and continues to play an active role in the UN Commission on the Status of Women, reinforcing its global commitment to ending this form of violence.

The first ever EU-wide legislation to fight violence against women and domestic violence.

In 2024, the EU adopted the first ever law to combat violence against women. The EESC directly contributed to this EU directive, which incorporated key provisions of our opinion:

• a comprehensive definition of violence: the directive criminalises various forms of violence against women, such as female genital mutilation and cyber violence, aligning with the EESC’s call for a broad definition;

• adopting an intersectional approach: the directive acknowledges the greater vulnerability of certain groups, including women with disabilities and migrant women, and calls for tailored support measures;

• enhanced support services: the directive provides for specialised support services for victims, in line with the EESC’s emphasis on comprehensive victim support.

In addition, the EU set up the 116 016 EU-wide helpline number for victims of violence against women.

The EU directive not only criminalises various forms of violence, but also provides for the creation of victim support services and mandatory training for law enforcement, along with preventive measures such as awareness campaigns and educational programs. It also ensures cross-border cooperation and protection for victims, with legal procedures that are harmonised across EU Member States.

Member States will have until 14 June 2027 to transpose the directive into their national law and policy.

Strengthening EU measures:

The EESC recently adopted a further opinion, which identifies shortcomings in the directive and seeks to further strengthen EU-wide measures. It calls for:

• a broader definition of violence against women (institutional violence, prostitution, chemical submission, pornography, etc.);

• violence against women to be added to the list of EU crimes;

• comprehensive sexuality education at all stages of education;

• specific focus on women with disabilities and other vulnerable groups.

Taking action on the global stage

The Committee’s participation in the 69th session of the UN Commission on the Status of Women (UNCSW) provided an opportunity to reiterate the EESC’s position and recommendations on the issue of equality of women and the fight against gender-based violence. The EESC called for the direct involvement of civil society organisations in shaping national and regional plans to end violence against women. The political declaration adopted at the end of the session reaffirmed the global commitment to gender equality, including the commitment to end gender-based violence.

Looking ahead

The EESC remains committed to combating domestic violence and violence against women in general. It will continue its efforts to have newly emerging forms of violence recognised in the EU, such as ‘sexual digital forgeries’ or ‘deepfakes’. In June 2025, the EESC also adopted a resolution on Supporting the Declaration of principles for a gender-equal society, backing the European Commission’s Roadmap for Women’s Rights. This will guide the Committee’s policy agenda on gender equality in the long term.

  European Economic and Social Committee, 2025. 2p.

By Steven Mello

While survey evidence suggests widespread financial fragility in the U.S., causal evidence on the implications of typical, negative income shocks is scarce. I estimate the impact of speeding fines on household finances using administrative traffic citation records and a panel of credit reports. Event studies reveal that fines averaging $195 are associated with a $34 increase in unpaid bills in collections. Given additional evidence that fine payment explains this effect and that default is the “last resort” for households, I interpret this finding as suggesting rates of inability to meet unplanned expenses which are consistent with the survey evidence. I also find that fines are associated with longer-run declines in credit scores, borrowing limits, and the likelihood of appearing as employed in payroll records covering a subset of large, high-paying employers. This impact on employment situations appears attributable to the diminished financial position of households rather than, e.g., downstream license suspensions.

Unpublished paper; 

By Carina Bruwer 

South Africa’s Succulent Karoo is home to succulent flora that occur nowhere else on earth. But many species are disappearing due to a rapidly escalating onslaught by criminal networks orchestrating the harvesting and trade of rare and threatened species to satisfy international demand for ornamental plants. This report explores the illegal market for South African succulent flora from the Succulent Karoo region, the impact of this market on people and ecosystems, and the implementation of the National Response Strategy to address the crisis  

Key points • Cooperation between State and non-State stakeholders has been integral to the response’s successes. • Despite the illegal succulent market’s transnational nature, the response is concentrated in South Africa. • Seized plants have become unmanageable. • Resource and staff shortages have overwhelmed those responding to the illegal market. • Limited law enforcement capacity and allegations of corruption in the Northern Cape Province have caused the response to be driven primarily by the Western Cape. • Limited government departments are engaged in implementing the National Response Strategy, despite its multiple dimensions 

Contemporary experiences from Jewish congregations and organisations

By The Swedish National Council for Crime Prevention

This study focuses on antisemitic hate crime and of insecurity and fear of exposure to such crime as it is experienced by Jewish congregations and organisations in Sweden.

Wide variation in exposure to antisemitic hate crime and harassment

The interviewees’ narratives indicate a wide variation in the degree of exposure to antisemitic incidents during the past five years among the different Jewish institutions that were interviewed. Several interviewees stated that it is unusual for their institutions or premises to be affected by hate crime. Reasons for this may be that their institutions have no premises or that they intentionally maintain a low profile.

It was primarily the representatives of Jewish congregations who stated that their institutions have been subjected to regular exposure to hate crime and other forms of antisemitism. Such exposure is often perceived as coinciding with dates that are important either to Jews or to radical nationalist groups, such as Kristallnacht or Jewish holidays, or with incidents in the Middle East. The nature of such exposure is reported as including everything from abuse and harassment to vandalism, hate and threats.

The most common form of exposure described as affecting the interviewed Jewish institutions was hate messages and threats via letters, telephone calls and email. In their mildest form, these messages may urge the congregation to actively take a position on the conflict between Israel and Palestine, while others are much more aggressive and may contain death threats and extreme antisemitic rhetoric. The interviewees also described incidents such as vandalism in the form of stones being thrown at windows, Stars of David spray-painted on the façade of congregational buildings, objects depicting Zyklon-B gas canisters being placed outside Jewish buildings and attempts at forced entry.

English summary of report 2025:9

Stockholm: The Swedish National Council for Crime Prevention, 2025. 13p.

By Jonas Ring and David Shannon

The significance of socioeconomic background factors for whether or not individuals become involved in crime has been widely discussed in the field of criminology, and the research literature in this field is extensive. The aim of this report is to provide an easily accessible overview of the knowledge that has been produced by this research. The report’s findings are based on a literature review that includes narrative reviews, systematic reviews and meta-analyses, as well as individual studies that have examined individual-level differences in offending in relation to socioeconomic background factors. The review is based primarily on studies published by researchers in the United States, the Nordic countries and the rest of Europe, but also includes a number of studies from other parts of the world. Different studies have used different indicators of socioeconomic background, such as parents' socioeconomic status or levels of education or income, or the family's financial resources in some other sense. The review proceeds on the basis of these studies’ own definitions and measures of socioeconomic background or related concepts, such as social class. The review presents findings from research based on both registered and self-reported crime. 

 English summary of Brå report 2023:3

By Ciara Molloy

In the late 1970s, a criminal-based youth subculture known as the Bugsy Malones emerged in inner-city Dublin. Through the use of oral history interviews, this article avails of ‘proximate voices’ to shed light on the Bugsy Malones’ socio-economic background, their individual and group characteristics, and the rise of a subcultural mythology because of the involvement of Gerry ‘The Monk’ Hutch (a well-known Irish figure linked to organised crime) with the subculture. These proximate voices comprise n = 10 individuals who encountered the Bugsy Malones in a personal or professional capacity and shared lived experiences, physical spaces and/or interests with them. By capturing such voices, the article transcends caricatured press coverage and generates enhanced insight into this largely forgotten subculture.

Irish Economic and Social History, 51(1), 113-130.

By Sylvia Barack Fishman

Waves of Jews emigrating to the United States from colonial to contemporary times were often fleeing active persecution, regarded as pariahs by surrounding Christians and Muslim majorities in their lands of origin. But in America, despite a range of difficult challenges, the status and image of Jews were both gradually transformed. Several excellent studies document how perceptions of Jews as a clearly defined “race” gradually eroded as the American twentieth century wore on.1 Still, among children of the immigrant generation, and among Holocaust survivors and their descendants especially, many American Jews continued to believe that Jews were potentially vulnerable, and should remain vigilant to potential antisemitic flare-ups. Even Jews born in the United States often felt that White Anglo-Saxon Protestant America, while “exceptional” and much more benign than most countries of origin in its treatment of the Jews, still exhibited occasional signs of antisemitism. Even after American Jews had become “white folks,” many insisted that their Jewish “whiteness” was still different than that of the WASPs, whom novelist Philip Roth desig- nated “the real owners of this place,”2 and Jewish often seemed to be “whiteness of a different color.”3 This Jewish sense of vulnerability was part of the motivation for American Jewish political and social activity on behalf of other oppressed groups and new immigrants: As sociologist Marshall Sklare demonstrated in his groundbreaking studies, many suburbanizing liberal American Jews in the 1950s and 1960s asserted that one of the most “essential” activities in order to be a “good Jew” was to “work for civil rights” and to help “attain equality for Negroes.”4 Many Jews took as their foundational religious motto the biblical principle “Be kind to the stranger because you were strangers in the land of Egypt” (Deuteronomy 10:19), meaning that Jews are a people whose lives intersect with other oppressed peoples, and Jews are responsible for helping other oppressed peoples. No longer stereotyped as foreign-looking, accented and struggling newcomers, successive generations of American Jews were increasingly (and sometimes negatively) portrayed as typifying the bourgeoisie or sometimes the nouveau riche. Satirical portrayals created by Jewish authors and filmmakers contributed: Herman Wouk, Philip Roth, and countless film and television screen-writers shone unflattering spotlights on aggressively upwardly mobile Jewish men and on Jewish women as the incarnation of spiritually bankrupt Judaism-as-consumerism. Ironically, among politically right-wing Americans, Jews were simultaneously stereotyped as communist “Reds” during and through the years leading up to the McCarthy/House Un-American Activities Committee hearings. Both sides of this negative stereotyping—the Jew as capitalist consumer and the Jew as “Red Menace”—reveal the durability of Jews as a distinctive, “othered” minority American group. (continued_

OCCASIONAL PAPER SERIES no. 1/2021

Oxford ◆ Cambridge ◆ New York.◆ Jerusalem ◆ Toronto.◆ Rome;

The Institute for the Study of Global Antisemitism and Policy

ISCAP 35p.

By Colin Murphy 

SUMMARY The growth in accessibility of online spaces and digital channels has been remarkable in recent years, providing citizens with many benefits, including enhanced communication, greater learning opportunities and easier access to private and public services. However, this growth has seen a commensurate increase in the associated risks and harms. Cyberbullying, cyber-violence and sexual extortion are just some of the dangers to which people, particularly vulnerable people, are exposed in the digital environment. In our 'always-on'world, issues such as cyberbullying can be a relentless experience and can leave victims with a constant sense of being under attack. Like the digital space itself, these dangers know no borders, which can make the problem a global issue. The solutions therefore are not 'one size fits all', but a combination of regional, national and transnational actions. The examples outlined here at regional level, while varying in size and scope, all have a common thread, which is the recognition of the risks to people and the desire to make a positive change. The approaches taken often involve a coordinated or cooperative style, with the involvement of students, teachers and parents. The message is consistent on the importance of recognising the dangers of the internet. It is important for victims to be able to quickly identify cyberbullying, cyberviolence and sexual extortion,and know how to deal with it and whom to turn to, in order to prevent risks from turning into harm.  

Brussels:  EPRS | European Parliamentary Research Service, 2025. 9p.

By The Institute for the Study of Global Antisemitism and Policy (ISGAP)

This report examines the Choices Program, a national education initiative for K-12 social studies curriculum housed at Brown University that combines licensed curriculum units, free online content, and professional education workshops to provide a range of resources for secondary school classrooms.17 The program, used by 8,000 schools in all fifty states, reaches over one million students. Our investigation reveals significant concerns regarding the program’s ambiguous structure, lack of transparency, ideological content shifts, and external influences. Organizational structure and transparency issues The report starts by documenting the structure of the Choices Program. Our investigation has uncovered troubling discrepancies in how the Choices Program presents itself: • While operating under Brown University’s umbrella and reputation, the program describes itself both as “a self-funded organization affiliated with Brown University” and as a separate “non-profit organization” based at Brown University. • Brown University enters into contracts “on behalf of” the Choices Program, suggesting a distinct legal structure with actors that are unknown to the schools that purchase the curriculum with no clear understanding of the true organizational structure. • The program’s financial structure and revenue streams remain opaque, with significant discrepancies between reported budgets and apparent revenue. Systematic content changes and ideological shifts that are reinforced by schools’ lack of oversight or content control The report next examines the Choices Program’s shift in narrative with respect to Israel and the fact that its structure impedes meaningful oversight and review of the curriculum. In particular, we demonstrate that the Choices Program has over many years become increasingly anti-Israel and anti-democratic in its approach, reflecting a particular pedagogical change in strategy and application that either went unnoticed by the schools purchasing the curriculum or was not disclosed by Brown University. Analysis of program materials, particularly those concerning the Middle East, reveals concerning patterns: • progressive delegitimization of Israel through content changes across editions; • elimination of key historical context and balanced perspectives; • downplaying of significant diplomatic achievements like the Abraham Accords; • introduction of increasingly partisan theoretical frameworks; • systematic changes in terminology and map presentations. This content and ideological shift has been bolstered by the proprietary system put in place by the Choices Program, which raises additional concerns: • schools lose the ability to track or review content changes; • schools receive no notification clarifying curriculum modifications; • restricted access prevents oversight by school boards and parents; • the limited transparency of the program’s privacy policies and third-party data sharing arrangements raises concerns about conflicts of interest and the potential exposure of students or teachers to external sources not approved by schools. External influence and misrepresentation Our investigation identified significant discrepancies between Brown University’s public statements and documented evidence regarding external influence over the Choices Program, including: • the understated relationship with QFI; • the misrepresentation of the nature and extent of QFI’s involvement in workshop content, teacher engagement, and curriculum distribution; • the lack of transparency concerning donor influence on content development Key implications This report raises serious concerns about: 1. potential violations of educational transparency requirements; 2. oversight failures by educational institutions adopting the curriculum; 3. compromised academic integrity through undisclosed external influences; 4. impact on student learning and perspective formation; 5. broader implications for K-12 educational content oversight. These findings suggest an urgent need for increased transparency, improved oversight mechanisms, and clearer guidelines for foreign influence in K-12 educational materials. The report concludes with specific policy recommendations to address these systemic issues.

Miami Beach; New York: The Institute for the Study of Global Antisemitism and Policy (ISGAP) 2025. 41p.

By José Ignacio, Giménez-Nadal, José Alberto Molina, Jorge Velilla

Social connection is a key determinant of emotional well-being, yet the role of solitude in shaping both momentary affect and overall life satisfaction remains understudied. This paper investigates how being alone while engaging in daily activities relates to subjective well-being, using rich time-use diary data from the UK covering four distinct periods: pre-pandemic (2015–2016), the Covid-19 lockdowns (2020–2021), the relaxation phase (2021), and the post-pandemic period (2023). We find that being alone is negatively associated with momentary enjoyment, particularly in the post- pandemic period, but not during lockdowns or the initial relaxation phase, suggesting that the emotional cost of solitude depends on its perceived voluntariness and social norms. The enjoyment penalty is strongest for leisure and unpaid work episodes, and most pronounced among remote workers. We also document a negative association between full-day solitude and overall life satisfaction, but only during the relaxation phase, suggesting that solitude can impose both short-term and longer-term costs of well-being, depending on the social context and type of activity. Our results contribute to the literature on experienced utility, labor supply, and remote work, highlighting the need to account for the emotional toll of isolation in welfare analysis and policy design.

IZA DP No. 17932

Bonn: IZA – Institute of Labor Economics, 2025. 37p.

By Robbie Shilliam and Lester Spence

Over the past decade, autocratization has increased worldwide, and the United States itself has seen its own democracy erode.While political scientists have begun to study both phenomena in earnest, with exceptions, they have been unable to fully wrestle with either. We suggest that this incomplete understanding is the result of the discipline’s problematic racial history. At the time of its founding in the late nineteenth century, political science provided a eugenicist justification for the very hierarchies and segregations that are now under scrutiny. Race was understood to be the quintessential subject of social scientific inquiry. After World War II, political scientists rejected eugenics and instead focused on defending democracy against totalitarianism. In doing so, they relegated racism to an ideological/irrational phenomenon and thus as extraneous to the core concern of the discipline. In this Annual Review of Political Science article, we refract the discipline’s contemporary and historical concerns with democracy through the lens of racial politics to better equip scholars with tools to examine and critically diagnose contemporary politics.

Annu. Rev. Political Sci. 2025. 28:195–211

By Aisha M. Beliso-De Jesús, Jemima Pierre, and Junaid Rana

This review presents a historical and contemporary view of white supremacy as an entrenched global system based on presumed biological and cultural difference, related practices of racism, the valorization of whiteness, and the denigration of non whiteness. We center the role of the discipline of anthropology, and contend that the discipline is shaped by, and shapes, structures of white supremacy. In this article, we detail anthropology’s role in the development of racial science and the subsequent placement of whiteness at the top of the world’s global political and cultural systems of power. We examine the early critiques of anthropology’s racializing practices by Black and Indigenous anthropologists, which set the stage for an anti-imperial analysis that addressed how white power was entrenched within the discipline and broader society. Last, we discuss emerging scholarship on the anthropology of white supremacy and the methodological and theoretical shifts that push the discipline and refine the concept.

Annu. Rev. Anthropol. 2023. 52:417–35

By Ashley Jardina1 and Spencer Piston

Abstract The concept of racist dehumanization is essential for political scientists who seek to understand the nature, scope, and consequences of white racial prejudice in the United States today. Racist dehumanization consists of a variety of processes that construct, refashion, and maintain race by coding some people as white and therefore fully human and others as other than white and therefore less than fully human. In this review, we focus on the racist dehumanization of Indigenous people and Black people, arguing that processes of dehumanization have long been implicated in both the practice of racemaking and concurrent efforts to exploit and dominate racialized groups. We posit that contemporary white racial prejudice can be understood, in part, as the residue of these processes, and we conclude by describing how accounting for racist dehumanization can transform the study of white racial prejudice.

Annu. Rev. Political Sci. 2023. 26:369–88

By Kalwant Bhopa

The term “White privilege” has been used to denote specific privileges that White groups possess due to their Whiteness and White identity. In this article, firstly, I outline how, as a conceptual tool,White privilege can only be understood in relation to Critical Race Theory, specifically the notion that racism is central and endemic, through Whiteness as property and interest convergence. Secondly, I analyze the development of White privilege and provide ways forward for the use of the term, and thirdly, I use examples from higher education to outline how White privilege works in terms of the construction of knowledge, the prioritization of gender above race, and the fact that policy making is designed to protect White identities to uphold a hegemonic system of White supremacy.

Annu. Rev. Sociol. 2023. 49:111–28

By Jetson Leder-Luis and Anup Malani

Healthcare fraud imposes a sizable cost on U.S. public healthcare budgets and distorts health care provision. We examine the economics of health care fraud and enforcement using theory and data and connect to a growing literature on the topic. We first offer a new economic definition of health care fraud that captures and connects the wide range of activities prosecuted as fraud. We define fraud as any divergence between the care an insurer says a patient qualifies for, the care a provider provides, and the care a provider bills for. Our definition clarifies the economic consequences of different categories of fraud and provides a framework for understanding the slate of existing studies. Next, we examine the incentives for committing and for prosecuting fraud. We show how fraud is driven by a combination of inadequate (expected) penalties for fraud and imperfect reimbursement rates. Public anti-fraud litigation is driven by the relative monetary, political or career returns to prosecuting fraud and by prosecutorial budgets. Finally, we examine the prevalence of health care fraud prosecutions across types of fraud and types of care, and across the US, by machine learning on text data from Department of Justice press releases.

WORKING PAPER · NO. 2025-45

Chicago: University of Chicago, Becker Friedman Institute for Economics 2025. 45p

By Yuxi Shang , Zhongxian Wu , Xiaoyu Du3, Yanbin Jiang , Beibei Ma , Meihong Chi

Criminals targeting and exploiting older adults in online environments are of great concern. This study systematically retrieved and analyzed articles on the psychological characteristics of older adult victims of online fraud. First, we found that there was no evidence that older adults were more prevalent than other individuals of other ages among online fraud victims, and current researchers have focused more on why older adults are easy targets for fraud (susceptibility to being cheated). Second, research on psychological factors of older adults' susceptibility to online fraud has mainly focused on cognitive function, trust traits, and other personality traits, such as social loneliness, the Big Five personality traits, and self-control. Among them, most researchers claim that the cyber-cheating of older adults may be due to a decline in their cognitive function. However, there has not been a consensus on how cognitive function and physical and mental conditions affect older people who are cheated. Third, techniques (i.e., methods and techniques used by fraudsters) and experience (i.e., familiarity with internet technology or fraud) may be related to the susceptibility of older adults to fraud, and these studies have also not yet generated a consensus supported by reliable data. Based on the above research uncertainties, we propose that fraud prevention and control strategies for older adults should be applied with caution.

Front Psychol. 2022 Sep 5;13:912242. doi: 10.3389/fpsyg.2022.912242. PMID: 36132192; PMCID: PMC9484557

Edited by Barbara Thiele

Rape Culture and the Bible: Scholars Reflect offers readers the opportunity to hear from prominent and influential biblical scholars and scholar activists as they reflect on their work on sexual violence vis-a-vis the Bible. This book covers major points of inquiry in the field, focusing primarily on the Hebrew Bible and the New Testament. It explores debates on appropriate terminology; intersectionality of sexual violence, gender, and race; how survivor perspectives inform the reading of violent texts; male-on-male sexualized violence in biblical literature; and the connections of Judeophobia with sexual violence in early Christian literature. The introductory chapter establishes methodology, purpose, and aims of this volume. The final chapter reflects on the ethical concerns governing the field, challenges scholars have faced in their discipline, and the tasks ahead. Along the way, Rape Culture and the Bible demonstrates how rape and rape culture in the Bible impact real lives across time and the globe.  

Oxford: Routledge, 2025.

Social Pathology: A Journal of Reviews (ISSN 1073-7855) was a small, specialist U.S. journal founded and published by Harrow and Heston (Guilderland/Albany, NY) in the mid-1990s. It focused on long review essays, critical syntheses, and thematic special issues in criminology, criminal justice, and “social problems” broadly construed (crime, punishment, race, inequality, environmental justice, end-of-life issues, etc.). Early volumes featured substantial review essays such as Gary Kleck’s “Guns and Violence: An Interpretive Review of the Field” in 1(1), January 1995. Later volumes included special issues, notably:

• “Assisted suicide” (guest-edited by Marvin Zalman) as 5(1), Winter 1999

• “New Directions in Criminological Research: Theoretical and Empirical Implications” (guest-edited by Wilson R. Palacios) as 6(3), 2000

By about 2000 (volume 6) the Harrow-and-Heston incarnation appears to end; an online record shows Social Pathology: A Journal of Reviews continuing under Sage in 2001, but the original criminology-oriented review journal is effectively defunct.(ZDB Catalogue)

Volumes and Issues

Volume 1 (1995)

• 1(1) – January 1995

  • Example: Gary Kleck, “Guns and Violence: An Interpretive Review of the Field,” Social Pathology 1(1): 12–47.(Office of Justice Programs)

• 1(2) – 1995

• James Frank, review of Community Policing: How to Get Started, Social Pathology: A Journal of Reviews 1(2): 184–189.Cincinnati Government

• I.D. Onwudiwe, review of The Bell Curve, Social Pathology: A Journal of Reviews 1(2): 203–208.

• 1(3)-Fall 1995. pp. 218-313 . READ-ME.ORG

Volume 2 (1996)

• 2(1) – Spring 1996

  • Todd R. Clear, “Science and the Punishment/Control Movement,” Social Pathology: A Journal of Reviews2(1): 1–22.(Office of Justice Programs)

• 2(2) – Summer 1996

  • David Parry, “Central Themes in Bush Justice Theory and Research,” 2(2): 87–119.(Office of Justice Programs)

  • David Parry, “Race and Community in Juvenile Justice Decision Making,” 2(2): 120–153.(Office of Justice Programs)

• 2(3) – Fall 1996

  • Williams, Cullen & Wright, “Labor Market Participation and Youth Crime: The Neglect of ‘Working’ in Delinquency Research,” 2(3): 195–217.(Office of Justice Programs)

  • David Kauzlarich, “State Criminality and Nuclear Weapons,” Social Pathology 2(3): 242–246.(Society and Justice Studies)

  • Paul Stretesky, “Environmental Equity? A Response to Clark, Lab and Stoddard’s Review of the Literature,” Social Pathology 2: 293–298 (same volume; issue not always given but context indicates late 1996).(SpringerLink)

Volume 3 (1997)

• 3(1) – implied by pagination and later issue numbering but I couldn’t locate a citation explicitly labelled “3(1)”.

• 3(2) – 1997

  • Victoria E. Titterington, book review (“Female Crime, Criminals and Cellmates”), Social Pathology: A Journal of Reviews 3(2) (issue number and volume given in her CV).(CJCenter)

• 3(3) – 1997

  • David Kauzlarich, “Nuclear Weapons on Trial: The Battle at the International Court of Justice,” Social Pathology 3(3): 157–164.(Society and Justice Studies)

• 3(3) – 1997

  • 3: 142–146 etc. .(Christina DeJong, Ph.

Volume 4 (1998)

• 4(1) – 1998

  • M. Barrett, “The Imprisoned Subject: Agency and Identity in Prison,” Social Pathology: A Journal of Reviews 4(1): 48–54.(Dokumen)

• Other 1998 content, issue not specified

  • Wilson R. Palacios & Dorothy L. Taylor, “Up close and personal: Using non-traditional textbooks in teaching a course on minorities, crime, and social policy,” Social Pathology 4: 87–94.(University of Massachusetts Lowell)

So volume 4 definitely has an issue 1, and likely additional issues, but the publicly accessible citations I can see don’t give the full issue breakdown.

Volume 5 (1999)

• 5(1) – Winter 1999 – “Assisted Suicide” special issue

  • Guest editor Marvin Zalman; described as “Assisted suicide [Special issue]. Social Pathology: A Journal of Reviews, 5(1)”.(SAGE Journals)

  • Reviews and essays on assisted suicide/end-of-life, e.g.:

    • J.L. Werth, articles on assisted suicide/end-of-life, cited as Social Pathology 5: 22–36.(Wiley Online Library)

    • Martin Gunderson, review of end-of-life books, Social Pathology 5(1): 95–97.(macalester.academia.edu)

    • Daniel Hillyard, review of Forced Exit, Social Pathology 5: 98–100.(SIU Academic Programs)

Volume 6 (2000)

• 6(1) – 2000

  • Lynne M. Vieraitis, “Income Inequality, Poverty, and Violent Crime: A Review of the Empirical Evidence,” Social Pathology: A Journal of Reviews 6(1): 24–45.(University of Texas at Dallas)

• 6(2) – 2000

  • Michael Welch, “Deconstructing the Flag-Burning Controversy: Contributions of Robert J. Goldstein in Review,” Social Pathology: A Journal of Reviews 6(2): 149–156.(CRW Flags)

• 6(3) – 2000 – “New Directions in Criminological Research” special issue

  • Guest editor: Wilson R. Palacios; his CV describes “New Directions in Criminological Research: Theoretical and Empirical Implications” as a special issue, Social Pathology 6(3).(University of Massachusetts Lowell)

  • Includes, for example, “Reopening the debate: A reexamination of the need for a Black criminology,” Social Pathology: A Journal of Reviews 6(3): 182–198.(Taylor & Francis Online)

• 6(4) – 2000

  • S. Moloney, review essay on The Ghost Dance and prison gangs, Social Pathology 6(4): 264–283 (cited in later work on gangs and cultural conflict).(greencriminology.org)

  • Late-volume book reviews such as Venessa Garcia’s review (cited only as 6: 312–315, but clearly at the back of volume 6).(New Jersey City University)