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Chris Uggen

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Professor, sociologist, criminologist, TheSocietyPages editor. Nerdy but sturdy. scholar.google.com/citations?user=8c95RVAAAAAJ&hl=en&oi=ao

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Becoming an Ex-Extremist
Powerful new article shows how people in violent extremist groups build on other role identities (eg, parent, spouse, employee) to forge non-extremist versions of themselves.
-Matthew DeMichele, Pete Simi and Kathleen Blee in BJC academic.oup.com/bjc/advance-...

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No, it's not about the election! A rising share of people leaving prison are 55+. And Jessica Grosholz et al show why many of the jobs they can get are too demanding physically ("demolition, raking leaves, shoveling") or technically ("everything is a computer").
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

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In a survey of 11,273 federal workers, sociologist Erin Cech finds that white men who were targets of harassment become more skeptical that their organizations are meritocratic and hence more likely to recognize and report race and gender bias in their orgs. www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/full/10....

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Wow! Powerful interview on The Last Human Job:
"though the power of connective labor resides in the individuals, the way to make it work better is to change how organizations produce or enable this work, instead of impede it" -sociologist @allisonpugh.bsky.social www.publicbooks.org/the-unique-m...

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Nathan Hare, Sociologist, Activist, and Key Founder of Black Studies www.nytimes.com/2024/06/21/o...

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Can I raise a practical question at this point?

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Someday they'll make a movie about Juror #52.

"The defendants carefully chose the juror and followed her home, watching her for days before approaching her with a bag of $120,000 cash in a bid to secure acquittals."
But Juror 52 could not be bought... strib.gift/ptczvvsh6

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Big news! In most states it has been legal but difficult to vote from jail while awaiting trial or serving time on non-felony sentences— but thanks to a new Colorado law, 61 jails and detention centers will offer in-person voting for the November election. www.nbcnews.com/politics/ele...

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In Baltimore "overdoses have fallen surprisingly hard on one group: Black men currently in their mid-50s to early 70s. While just 7% of the city’s population, they account for nearly 30% of drug fatalities—a death rate 20X that of the rest of the country." www.nytimes.com/2024/06/03/u...

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Article here:
“Increasing Firearm-Related Deaths among U.S. Black Rural Youths” www.nejm.org/doi/10.1056/...

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Strong interview with UMN grad student Allison Lind on her NEJM article with @wrigleyfield.bsky.social & Susan Mason. Important work (& real talk)
video.tpt.org/video/rising...
Eric: HAVE YOU GOT A GRADUATE ASSISTANT TO HELP YOU WITH ALL THIS DATA?
>Allison: THAT'S ME.
>Eric: YOU'RE IT?
[ LAUGHTER ]

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I didn’t know half this stuff

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Imagine how hard the authors of this paper had to work to call it “Social Media and Job Market Success" and not "Tweetment Effects”

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Is my local library trying to tell me something?

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“We recorded and reviewed several of your class sessions on April 8th, 10th, 15th and 17th using the existing Panopto camera in the classroom..."

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After Crime & Punishment By midlife, UK study shows desisters report more home ownership, marriage, children, voting, better health, & less victimization & mortality than persisters, but not full parity w/ general population.
-E Gray & S Farrall
nottingham-repository.worktribe.com/output/34629...

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In 2022, juveniles 17 and under accounted for about 10% of US arrests for violent offenses, 11% of homicide arrests, 20% of robbery arrests, and 33% of carjacking arrests.
-New from BJS, "Crimes Involving Juveniles, 1993-2022" bjs.ojp.gov/library/publ...

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New economic indicator just dropped.

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"Understanding the role of shifting state policies on population health requires more than single-policy studies—it requires examining policy bundles. Bundles reflect the reality that people do not experience one policy at a time."
-Jennifer Karas Montez www.milbank.org/quarterly/op...

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Unlike helping an adult child with, say, a down payment on a home, paying their court fines and fees is a "stigmatized transfer," putting extra financial and emotional strain on parents and parent-child relationships.
-Veronica Horowitz et al., new in TSQ

eprint: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

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Beaver or axe victim? Either way, it’s like a horror movie for trees. [Long Lake Park, MN]

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“Marriage is having a moment” but we need to support kids regardless of how their families are structured. Sociologist Paula Fomby explains why and how. New in @TheSocietyPages thesocietypages.org/specials/fam...

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It’s just “Manual of Style” now.

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Simpsonesque clouds got me humming the theme song.

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The suit sows “fear and uncertainty and doubt in the minds of people who count on the Restore the Vote Act…Minnesotans need to hear from this court that ‘No, you have been re-enfranchised. You will not be prosecuted for casting a ballot.’”
minnesotareformer.com/2024/04/01/f...

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I’ve updated gssr, an R package that makes it more convenient for R users to work with the General Social Survey. It now includes the most recent release (Version 2a) of the 1972-2022 data file. One feature of gssr is that it lets you see documentation for individual GSS variables as R help pages.

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Big news. Prosecutions like this can have a chilling effect, suppressing voting for the millions whose rights have been restored.

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And as I turned to make my way from home, The snow turned into rain …

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New study shows how state background check requirements shape wages for formerly incarcerated workers — finding a 14% difference between low-check and high-check states ($11.13/hour vs. $9.54/hour).

-David McElhattan, PSID & NICCC data, new in C&PP.
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....

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The University of Minnesota Urban Research and Outreach-Engagement Center (UROC) is seeking a full-time PhD-level Director of Research.

* Priority deadline: April 15, 2024
* Job ID: # 360185
uroc.umn.edu/news-events/...

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Look, if Pride goeth before the Fall, I'd never findeth either album. In this house, Pride goeth before Prince and the Fall goeth before the Flaming Lips.

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New #lifecourse study shows how changes in young adult role attainment (marriage, parenthood, work, independent living) align with changes in the level and slope of the age-arrest trajectory from 1960-2018.

-B. Bersani & E Eggleston Doherty in JRCD journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....

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Minnesota has nation's best roads* according to Consumer Affairs analysis.

*Note— Road Quality is a composite measure based on per capita lutefisk consumption, sub-zero days in January, and mean Passive Aggression Scale score.

www.cbsnews.com/amp/minnesot...

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“So, how did you get started in the business, Mr. Morricone?”

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