This paper begins to describe and explicate the specific mechanisms by which alcohol use and the alcohol use environment contribute to specific types of child maltreatment. These mechanisms relating alcohol outlet densities to child maltreatment described here include effects on social disorganization, parent's drinking behaviors, and parental supervision. By investigating potential mechanisms,...

Despite extensive theory and research on the geography of crime, few studies have examined commercial sex trafficking through a criminological lens. As such, this study explores how social disorganization routine activities help explain venues, specifically illicit massage businesses (IMBs) that host sex. Because IMBs also been linked to trafficking, understanding which environmental contexts a...

Rural communities make up much of America's heartland, yet we know little about their social organization, and how elements of their social organization relate to crime rates. The current study sought to remedy this gap by examining the associations between two measures of social organization - collective efficacy and social trust - with a number of structural community characteristics, local c...

Deposition of polymerizing fibrin on the vascular endothelium is the final event in intravascular coagulation. Exposure of fibrin clots to confluent monolayers of cultured human endothelial cells for 4 to 24 hours resulted in the disappearance of their normal cobblestone morphology and in the formation of endothelial cell aggregates. The present study was designed to evaluate the conditions and...

Social disturbances are common in schizophrenia and can be quite severe, significantly affecting functioning in a variety of ways. Yet the kinds of social disruptions experienced by persons with schizophrenia show a great deal of variability and are difficult to explain with available data. This article considers the variety of intersubjective disturbances that can occur in schizophrenia from a...