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Inhalant use, social support and help-seeking among rural South Texas community youth

Alberto G. Mata, Jr., Raul Magana — Thu, 13 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000

Little to no attention has been focused on inhalant using youths' social support and help seeking networks however. Since the 1950s, the use of inhalants by inner city Mexican American (M/A) youths has prompted serious attention both within and without larger MIA communities. This self-report study describes the responses of 614 sixth to twelfth grade South Texas students. The results disclose that M/As report lower levels of social support and help seeking than do Anglos. Both inhalant using and non-using youth report high levels of parental support, and both indicate considerable difficulties in talking about their problems to others. Finally, both groups indicate are reluctance, unwillingness or inability to tum to any of eight help sources listed for problems in general, and an even greater reluctance concerning problems with drugs or alcohol. Yet users were more likely than non-users to report greater difficulty discussing their problems and were more likely than non-users to do nothing about their problems, or to tum to none for help.

Race and pistol access: Variations among poor males

J Sherwood Williams, John H. McGrath, Ann Creighton Zollar — Thu, 13 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000

We examine factors related to pistol access among urban, low income, males. Because of the high usage of pistols in homicides, robbery and assaults within the African American population; one might suspect that this population has greater access to pistols than their white counterpart. By highlighting differences between poor urban African American and white male pistol owners, we hope to better understand racial variation in lethal violence. The data for this study were gathered by the National Opinion Research Center as part of their General Social Surveys. Several surveys conducted between 1973and 1987 were combined for this analysis. From these surveys 410 low income urban males who had access to a pistol were isolated for analysis. It is from the population this sample represents that the highest percentage of gun related violent aim is concentrated. Our findings show that low income, urban, African American males were more likely to have easier access to pistols than their white counterparts. This relationship persisted in all of the variables examined. African American males who used alcohol were twice as likely as whites to own pistols. Among those who frequently socialized in places where alcohol was served, African American pistol access, in their households, was eight times higher than it was for whites.

Chinese rural women: Production and reproduction

LiYing Li — Thu, 13 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000

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An alternative to incarceration: Juvenile home detention and electronic monitoring

Edward Davis, Paul T. Lockman, Jr., Michael Shaughnessy — Thu, 13 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000

Family intactness and teenage alcohol consumption: Some comparisons of students from military and civilian counties in the Southeast

John P Smith, Janice G. Williams — Thu, 13 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000

Crime along ritual interstate highways

Douglas E. Marton — Thu, 13 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000

Crime occurs at a lower rate in rural areas than in urban areas (Weisheit, Falcone, and Wells 1994). However, crime rates may vary across rural areas. Rural areas with unique social or geographic characteristics may exhibit crime rates different from rural areas not possessing those characteristics. The present study builds upon research by Jarrel and Howsen (1990)that indicated interstate highway traffic in an area affects crime rates in that area. This thinking is applied to rural crime. Crime rates in rural areas are compared across levels of interstate highway presence. Findings indicate traffic along interstate highways may in fact have a noticeable influence on the occurrence of some types of crime, especially motor vehicle theft, robbery, and homicide.

Commonwealth of Puerto Rico v. Branstad: The centralization of the criminal extradition law

Alfredo Montalvo — Thu, 13 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000

This paper uses the Supreme Court's decision in Puerto Rico v. Brandstad (483 U.S. 219 (19861) to challenge the bipolar model of judicial decision making. In this case, the Court, dominated by conservative justices, Overturned the 1861 landmark <ruling established in Kentucky v. Dennison (65 U.S. 66[1861 I) according to which A "federal court could not issue a writ of mandamus compelling a state governor to extradite a fugitive a fugitive to a sister state under the Extradition Clause of the Constitution.' Using a centralization approach, it is argued that at the center of the of the Court's decision in Puerto Rico was a distrust by the Supreme Court in the ability of state elected representatives to deliberate on a number of social issues and /or to create and enforce race and gender blind laws. From this perspective, the Court's decision represented a symbolic attempt by the Court to formally integrate the island within the existent traditional political process of extradition in light of the island's subordinate and minoritarian territorial status. The political implication of this decision for Puerto Rico is also explored.

Motives of social rapists

Dennis J. Stevens — Thu, 13 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000

This paper examines the self-reported accounts of61 incarcerated criminals who admit to serial rape. Respondents were interviewed using a methodology employing other convicted felons as interviewers. Results Show that lust and "righteous rape" were the most salient objectives of these experienced rapists. These findings reveal, too, that physical violence was selective and used sparingly. In light of these findings, additional research should be conducted addressing rape avoidance.

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Free Inquiry in Creative Sociology

Inhalant use, social support and help-seeking among rural South Texas community youth

Race and pistol access: Variations among poor males

Chinese rural women: Production and reproduction

Reviwers for 1995

An alternative to incarceration: Juvenile home detention and electronic monitoring

Family intactness and teenage alcohol consumption: Some comparisons of students from military and civilian counties in the Southeast

Crime along ritual interstate highways

Commonwealth of Puerto Rico v. Branstad: The centralization of the criminal extradition law

Motives of social rapists

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Free inquiry in creative sociology