By Becky Alexis-Martin (Manchester Metropolitan University), James Dyke (Univ. of Exeter), Jonathon Turnbull (Cambridge), Stephanie Malin (CSU). Originally published on The Conversation.  Climate crisis: migration cannot be the only option for people living on ‘drowning’ islands The evidence of the climate crisis is now undeniable. But state responses to climate change often have social and political motivations, rather than addressing […]

Stephanie Malin, Adam Mayer and colleagues published “Putting on partisan glasses: Political identity, quality of life, and oil and gas production in Colorado” in Energy Policy. 

A Primer of Permutation Statistical Methods, the latest textbook by Ken Berry, Janis E. Johnston (’16 Ph.D.), and Paul Wand Mielke, Jr., has been released.

Stephanie Malin and Tara Opsal published “Prisons as LULUs: Understanding the Parallels between Prison Proliferation and Environmental Injustices” in Sociological Inquiry.

Pat Hastings published “Who Feels It? Income Inequality, Relative Deprivation, and Financial Satisfaction in U.S. States, 1973–2012.” in Research in Social Stratification and Mobility.

Criminal Justice Policy Review recently published Dr. Jeff Nowacki’s paper “Gender Equality and Sentencing Outcomes: An Examination of State Courts.” Abstract: An important source of racial disparity in policing is traffic enforcement. The level of discretion afforded to officers for traffic enforcement is generally greater than it is for other policing decisions. One way to control […]

Dr. Jeff Nowacki and co-author Tyrell Spencer, Southern Illinois University, recently published “Police discretion, organizational characteristics, and traffic stops: An analysis of racial disparity in Illinois” in the International Journal of Police Science & Management. Abstract: This paper addresses traffic enforcement as an important source of racial disparity in policing. The level of discretion afforded to […]

Stephanie Malin and colleagues published “Relationships between indicators of cardiovascular disease and intensity of oil and natural gas activity in Northeastern Colorado” in Environmental Research.

Stephanie Malin and colleagues published “Embodied energy injustices: Unveiling and politicizing the transboundary harms of fossil fuel extractivism and fossil fuel supply chains” in Energy Research & Social Science.