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Annotated bibliography
Arroxxiccia Thomas
Walden University
Bramlett, D.M. (2012). Godless Americans: How non-religious persons are labeled as deviant in a religious society. Mater’s Theses, pp.1-94.
Bramlett (2012) examines the different types of deviances that exist in the American society including Atheism, Agnosticism and Secularism. The author aims to focus on the discriminatory behavior towards atheists by the other two groups. The author further aims at showing how American’s evangelical Christian roots dictate their definition of deviances as well as how they conduct their political agendas. The author relies on a qualitative data collection methods on individuals exposed to the terminologies identified by the author. In conclusion, the author believes that the attachment of the Atheists to deviance by the rest of society generates social stigma and mental health problems. This article provides the public’s perception of the meaning of deviance and in this case it is associated to a person’s religious affiliation.
Brewer, R. (2013). Enhancing crime control partnerships across government: Examining the role of trust and social capital on American and Australian waterfronts. Police Quarterly, 16(4), pp.371-394.
Brewer (2013) illuminates on the impact of collaboration between government agencies in handling crime. The author relies on frameworks generated in the American and Australian contexts on the basis of interagency trust. The author outlines the benefits of interagency trust including social capital and harmony. However, the author also intends to focus on both the pros and cons of partnerships within the case studies to provide an objective understanding. The author concludes that government agencies can manage crime levels in their societies by generating interagency collaboration and trust. This article helps to focus on how government can significantly contribute to controlling crime levels in society.
Currie, J. & Tekin, E. (2012). Understanding the cycle. The Journal of Human Resources, 47(2), pp.509-549.
Currie and Tekin (2012) study the correlation between child abuse and crime occurrence based on the National Longitudinal Study of Adolescent Health. The authors face two limitations to the research. They include use of a large national sample and factors that cause differing assumptions. The findings indicate that as maltreatment occurs and becomes prevalent it generates the cycle of crimes within society. The authors also indicate in conclusion that criminal behavior is also exacerbated by the severity of the maltreatment. This article offers a better understanding into the phenomenon of the cycle of crime, which is a major problem in society.
Davis, P.J. (2011). Entropy and society: Can the physical/mathematical notions of entropy be usefully imported into the social sphere? Journal of Humanistic Mathematics, pp.119-136.
Davis (2011) provides several definitions of entropy including the virtue and ambiguities of entropy. The author’s purpose is assess the historic and current understanding of society’s in regards to developments based on entropic lines and western social ethos. The author also discusses other factors including human time, cosmic time, entropic paradoxes and ambiguities as w ell as abstraction. The author also asserts how society did not at first have to rely on the concept of entropy to manage the chaos as well as how the elite propagate the false notion of pure democracy. In conclusion, the author advocates for society to ignore prejudices and misconceptions in regards to understanding the issues in society.
Flanders, C. (2016). Criminals behind the veil: political philosophy and punishment. BYU Journal of Public Law, 31(1), pp.83-111.
Flanders (2016) asserts that society faces the challenge of theorizing criminal law which propagates the current crisis facing the criminal justice system. The author justifies by illuminating on increased incidences of police violence and public distrust of the police. For instance, the author criticizes how current theories of deterrence and retribution fail to justify the imprisonment of millions of people in America. The author advocates for political theory and philosophy to help address the gaps in society. The author based the framework of the paper on John Rawl’s “ A Theory of Justice”. The author concludes that administering punishment to criminals should be similar to how primary goods are distributed. The article generates a different attitude that society needs to adopt towards dealing with crime punishment.
Mehrabi, M., Eskandarieh, S., Khodadost, M., Sadeghi, M., Nikfarjam, A., & Hajemi, A. (2016). The Impact of social structures on deviant behavior: the study of 402 high risk drug users. Journal of Addiction, pp.1-8.
Mehrabi et al. (2016) examines three social structures including institutional, relational and embodied structures that govern the deviant behaviors of individuals in the society. The methodology applied includes a mixed method that assesses both qualitative and quantitative data of 402 high risk substance users in Tehran, Iran in the year 2008. The authors conclude there is a direct link between the drug users’ deviant behavior and ineffective social structures. This article provides an in depth analysis of the impact of social structures on levels of deviant behavior within the Iran context. This will apply a multicultural perspective to the research subject matter.
Oliviera, M., Bastos-Filho, C., & Menezes, R. (2017). The scaling of rime concentration in cities. PLoS ONE, 12(8).
Oliveira et al. (2017) illuminates on the statistical analysis of crime rates in cities in order to identify factors that propagate crime. The authors focus their research on 25 locations in the U.S U.K using longitudinal data for periods between 2 years and 15 years. The authors explicate the results that there is direct correlation between scaling and concentration of crime and the city size. The authors conclude that urban planners need to apply their framework to help in effective analysis of different types of crime regions and types of crimes. This in turn, according to the authors, promotes urban development in terms of crime and other demographics. This article provides a statistical nature of crime within society which promotes the main arguments of the research study.
Ulmer, J.T., Harris, C.T., & Steffensmeier, D.(2012). Racial and ethnic disparities in structural disadvantage and crime: white, black and Hispanic comparisons. Social Science Quarterly, 93(3), pp.799-819.
Ulmer et al. (2012), focus on the racial and ethnic disparities in regards to violence including the causes of the structural disparities. The methodology the authors use is census data from California and New York, which target the racial groups of blacks, whites and Hispanics. The findings indicate that there is uniformity in regards to the gaps that arise from structural challenges and crime and racial and ethnic disparities are linked to racial and ethnic gaps in homicide and index violence. The authors conclude that the factors of poverty and family structure are responsible for racial and ethnic disparities in crime. The article provides data on social factors that generate crime in society.
References
Bramlett, D.M. (2012). Godless Americans: How non-religious persons are labeled as deviant in a religious society. Mater’s Theses, pp.1-94.
Brewer, R. (2013). Enhancing crime control partnerships across government: Examining the role of trust and social capital on American and Australian waterfronts. Police Quarterly, 16(4), pp.371-394.
Currie, J. & Tekin, E. (2012). Understanding the cycle. The Journal of Human Resources, 47(2), pp.509-549.
Davis, P.J. (2011). Entropy and society: Can the physical/mathematical notions of entropy be usefully imported into the social sphere? Journal of Humanistic Mathematics, pp.119-136.
Flanders, C. (2016). Criminals behind the veil: political philosophy and punishment. BYU Journal of Public Law, 31(1), pp.83-111.
Mehrabi, M., Eskandarieh, S., Khodadost, M., Sadeghi, M., Nikfarjam, A., & Hajemi, A. (2016). The Impact of social structures on deviant behavior: the study of 402 high risk drug users. Journal of Addiction, pp.1-8.
Oliviera, M., Bastos-Filho, C., & Menezes, R. (2017). The scaling of rime concentration in cities. PLoS ONE, 12(8).
Ulmer, J.T., Harris, C.T., & Steffensmeier, D. (2012). Racial and ethnic disparities in structural disadvantage and crime: white, black and Hispanic comparisons. Social Science Quarterly, 93(3), pp.799-819.