Campus crime and concealed carry laws: Is arming students the answer?
Publication date: Available online 30 May 2018Source: The Social Science JournalAuthor(s): Mark GiusAbstractAs of 2018, ten states allowed students, faculty, and staff to carry concealed firearms on campus. Although there has been much discussion regarding campus carry laws, there has been very little empirical research conducted on the link between campus carry laws and crime on campus. The present study attempts to determine if campus carry laws are statistically related to campus level crime. Using state-level data for the period 2005–2014 and a fixed effects model, results of the present study suggest that campus car...
Source: The Social Science Journal - July 5, 2018 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research
Why do the poor oppose income redistribution? An empirical test on the impacts of nationalism and fatalism
Publication date: Available online 30 May 2018Source: The Social Science JournalAuthor(s): Han Il Chang, Woo Chang KangAbstractWe study the poor’s psychological motivations to oppose income redistribution, relying on social identity and system justification theories. We find that national identification reduces differences between the poor and the rich in terms of attitudes toward income redistribution and self-esteem, by discouraging the poor from supporting redistribution but encouraging them to acquire greater self-esteem. Next, fatalism reduces and increases differences between the poor and the rich in terms of attit...
Source: The Social Science Journal - July 5, 2018 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research
Romantic relationships, college student alcohol use, and negative consequences of drinking
This study examined whether being in a romantic relationship is associated with undergraduates’ alcohol use and negative consequences of drinking. Alcohol use was operationalized to include amount and frequency of drinking, binge drinking, and drunkenness. Negative consequences included: having a hangover, missing a class, getting behind in school work, doing something that was later regretted, forgetting where the student was or what they did, having unplanned sex, and getting hurt or injured. Data came from an online survey distributed to Midwestern undergraduate students (N = 572), with analyses conducted se...
Source: The Social Science Journal - July 5, 2018 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research
Undone Science: Social Movements, Mobilized Publics, and Industrial Transitions, David J. Hess. MIT Press, Cambridge, Mass (2016), 250 pp., ISBN: 9780262529495
Publication date: June 2018Source: The Social Science Journal, Volume 55, Issue 2Author(s): Hugh S. Gorman (Source: The Social Science Journal)
Source: The Social Science Journal - July 5, 2018 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research
The Economics of Poverty: History, Measurement, and Policy, Martin Ravallion. Oxford University Press, New York, NY (2016), 736 pp., Paperback, ISBN: 9780190212773
Publication date: June 2018Source: The Social Science Journal, Volume 55, Issue 2Author(s): Trang Hoang (Source: The Social Science Journal)
Source: The Social Science Journal - July 5, 2018 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research
