Criminal Justice in the Urban Community

Understanding the History of the City

Analyzing Race, Crime and Urban Violence, After Ferguson: Research Perspectives and Data

Broken Windows

Postindustrial Cities and Explanations of Order‑Maintenance Policing

Urban Jails

Manhattan U.S. Attorney Finds Pattern And Practice Of Excessive Force And Violence At NYC Jails On Rikers Island That Violates The Constitutional Rights Of Adolescent Male Inmates
SDNY Rikers Report

Housing Discrimination

Housing Discrimination Against Racial and Ethnic Minorities 2012

Class, Race, Gender and Criminal Justice: Understanding Disparities in the System

Human Architecture: Journal of the Sociology of Self-Knowledge

Urban Inequality: Banishing the Indigent

Banishment in Public Housing: Testing an Evolution of Broken Windows

History and Biography: The Sociological Imagination

Video: Sociological Imagination
1.1 The Sociological Perspective
1.2 Understanding Society

Social Status, Social Forces, and Social Inequality

Race in the United States Criminal Justice System
Race, Crime and the Pool of Surplus Criminality: Or Why the "War on Drugs" Was a "War on Blacks "

Empirical Data and Research Methods

Research Methods for Everyday Life
Unobtrusive Research: Qualitative and Quantitative Approaches
New York City Map
Crime Statistics

From the War on Poverty to the War on the Poor

Where the War on Poverty and Black Power Meet: A Right to the City Perspective on American Urban Politics in the 1960s

From the War on Crime to the War on Drugs

Book Review: From the War on Poverty to the War on Crime: The Making of Mass Incarceration in America by Elizabeth Hinton

Black Youth

Recognizing Dignity: Young Black Men Growing Up in an Era of Surveillance

Juvenile Offenders in Adult Prisons

24 States Put Juvenile Offenders in Solitary, But Advocates Are Trying to Change That

The School to Prison Pipeline

Students, Police, and the School-To-Prison Pipeline
Can Cities End the School-to-Prison Pipeline? Relentless Organizers Are Tallying Wins

Alternatives to the Criminal Justice System As a Solution to Social Problems

After 20-Year Fight, Bronx Community Wins Big on Development Project Committed to Living Wages and Local Economy

Urban Unrest and Reform

How U.S. Urban Unrest in the 1960s Can Help Make Sense of Ferguson, Missouri, and Other Recent Protests