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Eskimo, more commonly called Inuit, is a term used to describe people who primarily live in the far north, usually...

Essentialism is a philosophical doctrine that each object has an essence that makes that object what it is. Essence can...

Sociologists who study divorce have focused on three major questions. First, some have taken a macro perspective and examined how...

Dual earner couples are romantically involved (either married or unmarried) and each contribute to the financial support of their household...

The earner-carer model is a fundamentally gender egalitarian welfare state approach, which assumes that men and women equally engage in...

Endogamy refers to in group marriage, or a pattern of marriage in which the partners have a shared group affiliation....

Families of children with disabilities experience challenges that other families do not face. They may experience stigma as a result...

From the earliest days of sociology, family and community have been central concerns of the discipline. The dense interpenetration of...

Although present since the nineteenth century, particularly in Marxist thinking (more specifically in Engels’s work), interest in family conflict within...

Sociology of family is the area devoted to the study of family as an institution central to social life. The...

Family demography is a subfield of demography and is the study of the changing nature of intergenerational and gender ties...

Family living arrangements in the US and throughout much of the world are consider ably more diverse, pluralistic, and fluid...

Parole is defined as a period of conditional supervision within the community following release from a prison term. This is...

Approximately 90% of all criminal cases in the United States are pled guilty, and a majority of these cases are...

A police interrogation involves a police officer interviewing someone who is believed to have committed a crime. The officer who...

The police lineup involves the presentation of multiple individuals (a suspect and a group of known innocent individuals known as...

Police officers hold a position of power in the criminal justice system, exercising authority over members of the public to...

Suitability for hire and fitness for duty evaluations (FFDEs) for police officers are complex evaluations that attempt to predict one’s...

During the last third of the 20th century, dramatic changes in regard to the treatment of people with mental illnesses...

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention estimates that 30,000 people die by suicide in the United States each year....

Policing is the act of providing security within a territory through enforcement of its laws or rules. In public policing,...

Preventive detention legislation enables an individual to be incapacitated to prevent harm from occurring either before they cause harm or...

One of the most dangerous places to find oneself in the United States is driving or walking on streets or...

Theories of policing, largely comparative in nature, seek to explain why policing systems differ widely in their organization, the powers...

In its duties, this unique law enforcement body operates somewhere between the military and local authorities. Historically, Texas Rangers have...

Terrorism has quickly emerged as a primary problem for law enforcement administrators and personnel working at both the federal and...

Terrorism is not a new phenomenon, though the understanding and categorization of it is relatively new. ”Terrorism” is a controversial term...

The term ”terrorism” emerged in the aftermath of the French Revolution and was used to describe aggressive methods (arrests and executions)...

Many Americans believe that domestic terrorism is a new crime. However, domestic terrorism has existed since humans first organized themselves into...

The definitional problems associated with terrorism must first be addressed by looking at the etymology of the terms associated with terrorism—words...

From the very beginning, the oxygen that has given life to the Rodney King story is television. (Alter 1992, 43)...

Technology in Law Enforcement Technology can generally be described as a tool with a purpose. In the twenty-first century, when we...

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Internet research ethics (IRE) attempts to clarify and resolve ethical dilemmas encountered by researchers who use the Internet as a...

A search engine is a computer program that allows the user to enter a series of keywords, usually called a...

Pornography online, sometimes called “cybersex,” has been assimilated to the discourse on sexuality as a mode of liberation for humankind...

There are numerous approaches to technology assessment but it is essentially a systematic method for exploring technology developments and assessing...

In 1957 Vance Packard complained that the manufacturers of typewriters and telephones had recently begun producing models in a wide...

The term “globalization” and related terms such as global system, global economy, and global culture have been used since the...

The social construction of technology (SCOT) is one approach among several constructivist ways of studying science and technology that emerged...

Communication and communication technologies are intrinsic to the idea of terrorism as formulated and understood from the nineteenth century onwards....