Recent Peer-Reviewed Articles

Our talented and productive faculty publish across a range of top-tier peer-reviewed journal outlets. Below is but a small slice of recent publications; be sure to check faculty CVs for a more complete list.

2022

Racial discrimination and health among two generations of African American couples

SOCIAL SCIENCE AND MEDICINE

Ashley B.Barr, Ronald L.Simons, Steven R.H.Beach, and Leslie GordonSimons

Feminized need and racialized danger: Punitive therapeutics and historical addict tropes in a Midwestern drug court

THEORETICAL CRIMINOLOGY

Veronica Horowitz and Teresa Gowan

Public Support for Government Intervention in Health Care in the United States from 1984 to 2016

SOCIUS

Yaqi Yuan, Kristen Schultz Lee, and Yunmei Lu

2021

Using Estimates of Undocumented Immigrants to Study the Immigration–Crime Relationship

JOURNAL OF CRIME AND JUSTICE

Robert M. Adelman, Yulin Yang, Lesley Williams Reid, James Bachmeier, and Mike Maciag

Gentrification in the ‘City of Good Neighbors’: Race, Class, and Neighborhoods in Buffalo

SOCIOLOGICAL INQUIRY

J Coley and Robert M. Adelman

Gender Differences in the Dating Experiences of African American Young Adults: The Challenge of Forming Romantic Relationships Within the Context of Power Imbalance

YOUTH & SOCIETY

Leslie Gordon Simons, Tara E. Sutton, Antoinette M. Landor, Ashley B. Barr, Chalandra M. Bryant, Ellen M. Granberg

On the Interactive Nature of Place-Making: Modifying Growth Machine Theory to Capture the Spatial and Temporal Connections that Spawned the Asian Carp Invasion

THE SOCIOLOGICAL QUARTERLY

Jordan Fox Besek

W.E.B. Du Bois and Interdisciplinarity: A Comprehensive Understanding the Scholar's Approach to Natural Science

JOURNAL OF CLASSICAL SOCIOLOGY

Jordan Fox Besek, Patrick Greiner, and Brett Clark

Adult Children’s Educational Attainment and Parent Health in Mid- and Later-Life

THE JOURNALS OF GERONTOLOGY: SERIES B

Christopher R Dennison and Kristen Schultz Lee

 

Self-Reported Experiences and Consequences of Unfair Treatment by Police

CRIMINOLOGY

Christopher R. Dennison and Jessica G. Finkeldey

Racial and Ethnic Differences in the Relationship Between Educational Mobility and Crime

RACE AND JUSTICE

Christopher R. Dennison

Protective State Policies and the Employment of Fathers with Criminal Records

SOCIAL PROBLEMS

Allison Dwyer Emory

Parental Debt and Child Well-being: What Type of Debt Matters for Child Behavior Outcomes?

RUSSELL SAGE FOUNDATION JOURNAL OF THE SOCIAL SCIENCES

Nepomnyaschy, Lenna, Allison Dwyer Emory, Kasey Eickmeyer, Maureen R. Waller, and Daniel P. Miller

Sociology of Chronic Pain

JOURNAL OF HEALTH AND SOCIAL BEHAVIOR

Anna Zajacova, Hanna Grol-Prokopczyk, and Zachary Zimmer

Pain Trends among American Adults 2002–2018: Patterns, Disparities, and Correlates

DEMOGRAPHY

Anna Zajacova, Hanna Grol-Prokopczyk, Zachary Zimmer

Chronic Pain and Friendship among Middle-Aged and Older U.S. Adults

JOURNALS OF GERONTOLOGY: SERIES B

Yulin Yang and Hanna Grol-Prokopczyk

Legal ‘Locker Room Talk’: Essentialist Discourses of Masculinity in Law

MEN AND MASCULINITIES

Erin Hatton

Native Americans and Monetary Sanctions

RUSSELL SAGE FOUNDATION JOURNAL OF THE SOCIAL SCIENCES

R. Stewart, B. Watters, Veronica Horowitz, R. Larson, B. Sargent, and C. Uggen

Age, Period, and Cohort Differences between the Homicide Trends of Canada and the United States

BRITISH JOURNAL OF CRIMINOLOGY

Mateus Renno-Santos, Yunmei Lu, and Rachel Fairchild

Social Change and Gendered Reaction to the Threat of Victimization, 1973-2016: An Age-Period-Cohort Analysis

SOCIOLOGICAL QUARTERLY 

Yunmei Lu, Kacy Amory, and Luzi Shi

Consistent Honor, Persistent Disadvantage: American Indian and Alaska Native Veteran Health in the National Survey of Veterans

JOURNAL OF AGING AND HEALTH

Kimberly R. Huyser, Sofia Locklear, Connor Sheehan, Brenda L. Moore, John S. Butler

Nation-level Gender Inequality and Couples’ Income Arrangements

JOURNAL OF FAMILY AND ECONOMIC ISSUES

Joanna R. Pepin and Philip N. Cohen.

 

The Intersection of Racial and Gender Attitudes, 1977 through 2018

AMERICAN SOCIOLOGICAL REVIEW

William J. Scarborough, Joanna R. Pepin, Danny L. Lambouths III, Ronald Kwon, and Ronaldo Monasterio

2020

Legacies of Marginalization: System Avoidance among the Adult Children of Unauthorized Immigrants in the United States

INTERNATIONAL MIGRATION REVIEW

Sarah Desai, Jessica Houston Su, and Robert M. Adelman

First- and Continuing-Generation Students, Substance Use, and College Graduation

SOCIAL FORCES

Raymond R. Swisher and Christopher R. Dennison

Spinners or Sitters? Regimes of Social Reproduction and Urban Chinese Workers' Employment Choices

INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF COMPARATIVE SOCIOLOGY

Yige Dong

Repackaging Fatherhood: Father Engagement and Cooperative Coparenting in Mid-Pregnancy Marriages and Cohabitations

JOURNAL OF MARRIAGE AND FAMILY

Jessica Houston Su and Allison Dwyer Emory

Providing After Prison: Nonresident Fathers Formal and Informal Contributions to Children

RUSSELL SAGE FOUNDATION JOURNAL OF THE SOCIAL SCIENCES

Allison Dwyer Emory, Lenna Nepomnyaschy, Maureen R. Waller, Daniel P. Miller, Alexandra Haralampoudis

 

The Role of Welfare in Family Income Inequality: 1968-2016

CHILDREN AND YOUTH SERVICES REVIEW

Wagmiller, Robert L. Jr., Kristen Schultz Lee, and Jessica Houston Su

The Public Salience of Crime, 1960-2014: Age-Period-Cohort and Time-Series Analyses

CRIMINOLOGY

Luzi Shi, Yunmei (Iris) Lu, and Justin Pickett

Young Adults’ Expectations of the Division of Labor in their Future Families

SOCIOLOGICAL SCIENCE

Brittany N. Dernberger and Joanna R. Pepin

Adorning the Female Body: Feminist Identification, Embodied Resistance, and Aesthetic Body Modification Practices

SOCIOLOGICAL FOCUS

Samantha Kwan, Scott V. Savage, and Mary Nell Trautner

2019

Buffalo’s West Side Story: Migration, Gentrification, and Neighborhood Change

CITY & COMMUNITY

Robert M. Adelman, Aysegul Balta Ozgen, and Watoii Rabii

Race, Ethnicity, and the American Criminal Justice System: The Perceptions and Experiences of West Indian Men

RACE AND JUSTICE

O. Nicholas Robertson and Robert M. Adelman

Testing Life Course Models Whereby Juvenile and Adult Adversity Combine to Influence Speed of Biological Aging

JOURNAL OF HEALTH AND SOCIAL BEHAVIOR

Ronald L. Simons, Man-Kit Lei, Steven R. H. Beach, Leslie Gordon Simons, Ashley B. Barr, Frederick X. Gibbons, Robert A. Philibert

Invasive Uncertainties: Environmental Change and the Politics of Limited Science

ENVIRONMENTAL SOCIOLOGY

Jordan Fox Besek

Postsecondary Education, Neighborhood Disadvantage, and Crime: An Examination of Life Course Relative Deprivation

CRIME & DELINQUENCY

Christopher R. Dennison and Raymond R. Swisher

The Crime-Reducing Benefits of a College Degree: Evidence from a Nationally Representative U.S. Sample

CRIMINAL JUSTICE STUDIES

Christopher R. Dennison

What Is Made-in-China Feminism(s)? Gender Discontent and Class Friction in Post-Socialist China

CRITICAL ASIAN STUDIES

Angela X. Wu and Yige Dong

Use and Opinions of Prescription Opioids Among Older American Adults: Sociodemographic Predictors

JOURNAL OF GERONTOLOGY: SERIES B

Hanna Grol-Prokopczyk

 

"Either You Do It or You’re Going to the Box": Coerced Labor in Contemporary America

CRITICAL SOCIOLOGY

Erin Hatton

Consistency and Compensation in Mercy: Commutation in the Era of Mass Incarceration

SOCIAL FORCES

Veronica Horowitz and Christopher Uggen

Age and Crime in South Korea: Cross-National Challenge to Invariance Thesis

JUSTICE QUARTERLY

Darrell Steffensmeier, Yunmei (Iris) Lu, and Chongmin Na

Beliefs about Money in Families: Balancing Unity, Autonomy, and Gender Equality

JOURNAL OF MARRIAGE & FAMILY

Joanna R. Pepin

Working later in the USA and Ireland: implications for precariously and securely employed women

AGEING & SOCIETY

Á. Ní Léime and Debra Street

Gender Goals: Boys and Young Men Defining Masculinity and Navigating Peer Pressure to Engage in Sexual Activity

GENDER & SOCIETY

Kiera D. Duckworth and Mary Nell Trautner