Monthly Archives: June 2016

Human Service Organizations: Management, Leadership & Governance Laura J. Elwyna, Nina Esaki & Carolyn A. Smith* Abstract: Juvenile justice facilities have historically struggled with creating and maintaining safe, therapeutic environments. The need to maintain order has often led to practices that diminish and traumatize residents rather than enable healing and development. Efforts to create change [...]

Annals of Behavioral Medicine Tse-Chuan Yang*, Danhong Chen, Kiwoong Park Background: While the association between perceived discrimination and health has been investigated, little is known about whether and how neighborhood characteristics moderate this association. Purpose: We situate discrimination in the housing context and use relative deprivation and social capital perspectives to fill the knowledge gap. Methods: We applied [...]

The ANNALS of the American Academy of Political and Social Science 666:1  (July 2016) Zai Liang*, Bo Zhou Abstract: Using a 2004 survey done in New York City’s Chinese community, we explore the extent to which legal status affects immigrants’ labor market performance and health status. We focus on five issues related to legal status of [...]

Obstetrics & Gynecology Swain CA , Smith LC , Nash D , Pulver WP , Gordon D , Bian F , Miranda W , Anderson BJ , Chicoine J , Birkhead GS , McNutt LA* Abstract: To identify factors associated with continuity of care and human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) virologic suppression among postpartum women diagnosed with [...]

Social Science Research Tse-Chuan Yang*, Yunhan Zhao, Qian Song Abstract: Previous research on segregation and health has been criticized for overlooking the fact that segregation is a multi-dimensional concept (i.e., evenness, exposure, concentration, centralization, and clustering) and recent evidence drawn from non-black minorities challenges the conventional belief that residential segregation widens racial health disparities. Combining [...]

Journal of Archaeological Science: Reports Volume 8 (August 2016) Nayeli G. Jiménez-Cano, Marilyn A. Masson* Abstract: The presence of marine catfishes (Ariopsis felis) in several pre-Hispanic Mayan sites indicates their importance in the economy of the region. The present study presents a method for predicting marine catfish body size, standard length, total length and weight from bones [...]

Journal of Palliative Medicine (June 2016) Hornick David N., Paynter Christopher, Dailey Michael W., and Young Yuchi* The full article * Denotes CSDA Associates and Staff

Journal of Experimental Criminology Allison D. Redlich, Shawn D. Bushway*, Robert J. Norris Objectives Approximately 95 % of convictions in the United States are the result of guilty pleas. Surprisingly little is known about the factors which judges, prosecutors, and defense attorneys consider in these decisions. To examine the legal and extralegal factors that legal [...]

The Journal of Culture & Agriculture 38:1 (June 2016) Verónica Pérez Rodríguez* Abstract: This article presents ethnographic information on terrace farming that was collected to ground archeological interpretations of cross-channel terraces known as lama-bordos in the Mixteca Alta region of southern Mexico. Ethnographic interviews asked about labor organization and the labor requirements of terrace construction, [...]

Journal of Family Issues Glenna D. Spitze* & Katherine Trent* Abstract: Data from the first two waves of the National Survey of Families and Households are used to examine how individual sibling relationships change in response to life events in a gendered context. We find union formation is associated with a decline in sibling visits, [...]