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Understanding Risk and Prevention in Midwestern Antitrafficking Efforts: Service Providers' Perspectives
(Reading Room, 2020-06-22)Since the 2000 passage of both the Trafficking Victims Protection Act (TVPA) and the U.N.’s Palermo Protocols, human trafficking has gained a notable global presence as a human rights concern. Community organizations, ... -
A Prototype Comparison of Human Trafficking Warning Signs: U.S. Midwest Frontline Workers’ Perceptions
(Taylor & Francis, 2020-11-01)Guided by the cognitive prototype approach, this article examines the prototype structure of the frontline workers’ perceptions concerning warning sign indicators in human trafficking. Online survey responses across a range ... -
Frontline Workers’ Perceptions of Human Trafficking: Warning Signs and Risks in the Midwest
(Taylor and Francis Group, 2018-12-26)Research on human trafficking in the U.S. has centered overwhelmingly on coastal regions, border states, and urban hubs. In an attempt to understand perceptions of exploitation and human trafficking more broadly, this paper ... -
A Tale of Two Pandemics: Economic Inequality and Support for Containment Measures in Peru
(SAGE Publications, 2021-08-11)Research suggests that the coronavirus pandemic disproportionately affected poor communities. However, relatively little is known about how this differential impact affected support for, and compliance with, COVID-19 ... -
Antidiscrimination Interventions, Political Ads on Transgender Rights, and Public Opinion: Results From Two Survey Experiments on Adults in the United States
(Frontiers Media, 2021-08-19)Political advertisements can shift attitudes and behaviors to become more exclusionary toward social out-groups. However, people who engage in an antidiscrimination exercise in the context of an experiment may respond ... -
Morality Politics and New Research on Transgender Politics and Public Policy
(De Gruyter, 2019)Recent political debate over transgender military service and gendered bathroom use highlights a dramatic increase in salience over transgender issues in the US. In this essay, we examine a potential new front in the culture ... -
Transgender prejudice reduction and opinions on transgender rights: Results from a mediation analysis on experimental data
(SAGE Publications, 2018-03-19)Fears, phobias, and dislikes about minorities should be strong determinants of whether Americans support policies protecting such minorities. Studies suggest that discussions and information about transgender people can ... -
Public Attitudes on Transgender Military Service: The Role of Gender
(SAGE Publications, 2019-07-11)Policy regarding the inclusion of transgender soldiers in the U.S. military has shifted back and forth in recent years, with public opinion likely a significant factor shaping the eventual policy outcome. As such, this ... -
Motivated Innumeracy: Estimating the Size of the Gun Owner Population and Its Consequences for Opposition to Gun Restrictions
(Wiley, 2018-11-20)Past research suggests that people substantially overestimate the size of minority populations. Labeled “innumeracy,” inflated estimates of minority populations can have a negative impact on intergroup relations and influence ... -
Immigrant legislation, across and within the United States
(SAGE Publications, 2017-11-26)State governments are now the principal source of immigrant legislation in the US. Existing research presents contradictory findings concerning the sources of pro- and anti-immigration state legislation. However, research ... -
The direct and moderating effects of mass shooting anxiety on political and policy attitudes
(SAGE Publications, 2018-08-27)In this article, we examine the effects of individual anxiety after the 2016 Orlando, Florida, mass shooting, which killed 49 people and wounded 58 others. Similar to prior research on the influence of anxiety, after the ... -
Amitai Etzioni: Communitarian Centrist and Principled Pluralist
(Elsevier, 2018-03)During his 60 year career at Columbia and George Washington Universities, Amitai Etzioni has made many contributions to interdisciplinary understandings of social movements, become a respected public intellectual addressing ... -
Policy Responsiveness to Protest Group Demands
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Aligned Across Difference: Structural Injustice, Sex Work, and Human Trafficking
(Johns Hopkins University Press, 2017)Feminist scholars and activists engage in meaningful, contentious debates about the relationships among sex, gender, power, and society. One of the most recent iterations of these arguments reinscribes the pleasure of sex ... -
Islam and power legitimation: instrumentalisation of religion in Central Asian States
(Taylor and Francis, 2016-03)How can Islam play multiple and contradictory roles as a source of violence and peace, and a marker of identity differences and national unity? This study argues that religion, as a system of beliefs, manifests itself ... -
Not a Woman, but a Soldier: Exploring Identity through Translocational Positionality
(Springer Verlag, 2016-08-09)Recent debate over integrating women into U.S. military combat units presents an opportunity to examine the gender identities and experiences of women in the military. Here, we examine the context-dependent prominence of ... -
John Rawls, Barack Obama, and the Pluralist Political Consensus
(University of Chicago Press, 2016-10-01)To counter partisan polarization, political theorists like John Rawls and political leaders like Barack Obama have sought to locate and express consensual elements of American culture that can appeal to or at least be ... -
Talking Politics on Facebook: Network Centrality and Political Discussion Practices in Social Media
(SAGE Publications, 2015)This study examines the relationship between political discussion on Facebook and social network location. It uses a survey name generator to map friendship ties between students at a university and to calculate their ... -
Women's Activism in South Africa: Working Across Divides
(University Of KwaZulu-Natal Press, 2009-03-19)Women's Activism in South Africa provides the most comprehensive collection of women's experiences within civil society since the 1994 transition. This book captures South African women's stories of collective activism and ... -
Human Trafficking Indentification and Service Provision in the Medical and Social Service Sectors
(Harvard School of Public Health, 2016-06)The medical sector presents a unique opportunity for identification and service to victims of human trafficking. In this article, we describe local and site-specific efforts to develop an intervention tool to be used in ...
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