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  • GHETTO REVOLTS
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    GHETTO REVOLTS
    PETER H. ROSSI
    For the past decade, transaction, and now Society, has dedicated itself to the task of reporting the strains and conflicts within the American system. The work done in the magazine has crossed disciplinary boundaries. This represents much more than simple cross-disciplinary "team efforts." It embodies rather a recognition that the social world cannot be easily carved into neat ...

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  • UNDER THE GUN
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    UNDER THE GUN
    PETER H. ROSSI
    In 1978, the Social and Demographic Research Institute of the University of Massachusetts, Amherst, received a grant from the National Institute of Justice to undertake a comprehensive review of the literature on weapons, crime, and violence in the United States. The purpose of the project is best described as a "sifting and winnowing" of the claims and counterclaims from both ...

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  • THE EDUCATION OF CATHOLIC AMERICANS
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    THE EDUCATION OF CATHOLIC AMERICANS
    ANDREW M. GREELEY / PETER H. ROSSI / STEPHEN M. KRASON
    First Published in 2017. The Education of Catholic Americans was a famous, comprehensive study of the effects of Catholic education in America by two very wellknown, heavily published sociologists, Fr. Andrew M. Greeley and Peter H. Rossi. The book was one of many seminal studies of different aspects of life and groups within American society sponsored by the National Opinion R...

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  • ARMED AND CONSIDERED DANGEROUS
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    ARMED AND CONSIDERED DANGEROUS
    PETER H. ROSSI
    Armed and Considered Dangerous is a book about "bad guys" and their guns. But Wright and Rossi contend that for every suspected criminal who owns and abuses a firearm, a hundred or more average citizens own guns for sport, for recreation, for self-protection, and for other reasons generally regarded as appropriate or legitimate. Armed and Considered Dangerous is the most ambiti...

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  • MONEY, WORK, AND CRIME
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    MONEY, WORK, AND CRIME
    PETER H. ROSSI / RICHARD A. BERK / KENNETH J. LENIHAN
    Money, Work, and Crime: Experimental Evidence presents the complete details of the Department of Labor’s $3.4 million Transitional Aid Research Project (TARP), a large-scale field experiment which attempted to reduce recidivism on the part of ex-felons. Beginning in January 1976, some prisoners released from state institutions in Texas and Georgia were offered financial aid f...

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  • NATURAL HAZARDS AND PUBLIC CHOICE
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    NATURAL HAZARDS AND PUBLIC CHOICE
    PETER H. ROSSI / JAMES D WRIGHT / ELEANOR WEBER-BURDIN
    Natural Hazards and Public Choice: The State and Local Politics of Hazard Mitigation presents a research project that emerged from a concern for estimating the balance of support versus opposition to prospective social policies that aim to reduce the risks of damage or injuries from major natural hazard events via the regulation of land use and establishment of building and occ...

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  • DOWN AND OUT IN AMERICA
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    DOWN AND OUT IN AMERICA
    PETER H. ROSSI
    The most accurate and comprehensive picture of homelessness to date, this study offers a powerful explanation of its causes, proposes short- and long-term solutions, and documents the striking contrasts between the homeless of the 1950s and 1960s and the contemporary homeless population, which is younger and contains more women, children, and blacks. ...

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