242 The Journal of Clinical Investigation http://www.jci.org Volume 119 Number 2 February 2009 Unfortunately, the chilling account that opens P. Michael Conn and James V. Parker’s The animal research war is not at all unique. The transcontinental, coordinated targeting of a researcher by those who oppose the use of animal models is only one of countless examples of intimidation and harassment e...

In the 1939 movie The Wizard of Oz, Frank Morgan plays five roles. In one of them, he is a flimflam hawker of trivia traveling across the plains of Kansas in a horse-drawn wagon. In another, he is the wizard who, concealed by a curtain, manipulates a machine that controls all of Oz. Now, more than 65 years later, another pitchman is rolling across Kansas, but unlike Morgan’s bumbling peddler of...

Most mentoring programs target at-risk youth, but programs for those already adjudicated in the juvenile justice system have been less extensively studied. We examined the referral process, rates of program completion and recidivism for 97 mentored and 287 non-mentored youth on probation in a large, urban, Hispanicdominated county. Youth who were referred to mentoring were already showing a pat...

This paper documents the rise of the Internet as a source of cigarette tax competition for states in the U.S. Using data on the cigarette tax rates, taxable sales and individual smoking by state from 1990 to 2001 merged to data on the rise of Internet use, the paper documents the paper first documents that in recent years there has been a substantial increase in the sensitivity of the sales of ...

Latin American trans* masculine individuals have often been erased from public discourse, both within their societies and trans studies. On the one hand, region, it is frequent to hear that masculinities are invisible. This invisibility or, rather, this erasure of our subjectivities, directly related fact identities not recognized as such thus disregarded (Álvarez Broz 2017; Fernández Romero, T...

The racially disparate impact and individual collective costs of stop frisk, misdemeanor arrests, pretextual traffic stops have been well documented. Less widely noticed is the contrast between Supreme Court case law permitting these practices Court’s recent tendency to strictly regulate technologically enhanced searches that occur outside street policing setting that—coincidentally or not—happ...

Drawing on participant observations and interventions while counseling 160 heroin addicts over a two-year period, the author explores the possibilities and limitations of using sociology to counter his clients' addictions to heroin and other drugs. Important historical changes have brought about new conflicting viewpoints within the methadone maintenance clinic, where acupuncture and Chinese he...

During the 19 century, the US birthrate fell by half. While previous economic literature has emphasized demand-side explanations for this decline—that rising land prices and literacy caused a decrease in demand for children—historians and others have emphasized changes in the supply of technologies to control fertility, including abortion and birth control. In this paper we exploit the introduc...

Sociologists have largely ignored the role of animals in society. This ar ticle argues that human-animal interaction is a topic worthy of sociological consideration and applies a sociological analysis to one problematic aspect of human-animal relationships animal cruelty. The article reformulates animal cruelty, traditionally viewed using a psychopathological model, from a sociological perspect...

The present study investigated the use of the MMPI-2 L (Lie) scale as a criterion variable in the pre-employment selection of police officers. In a prior article, Weiss, Davis, Rostow, and Kinsman (2003) found that high L scale scores are associated with a number of performance problems in law enforcement officers. These investigators recommended a L scale cutoff of 8 when making hiring decisio...