Editorial Board
- Gender Studies Section
- Contemporary Politics and Society Section
- Social Economics Section
- Social Policy and Welfare Section
- International Migration Section
- Work, Employment and the Labor Market Section
- Family Studies Section
- Childhood and Youth Studies Section
- Social Stratification and Inequality Section
- International Politics and Relations Section
- Crime and Justice Section
Please note that the order in which the Editors appear on this page is alphabetical, and follows the structure of the editorial board presented on the MDPI website under information for editors: editorial board responsibilities.
Members
Interests: social movements; protest; sexuality; postconflict societies; political sociology
Interests: policing; police reform; hate crime
Interests: community participation; transition; inclusive research and education
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Interests: criminology; criminal law; climate change law; causes and prevention of crime; crime and social justice; crime policy; state crime; technology, crime and surveillance; environmental crime; forensic psychology and courts and sentencing
Interests: family; sex and gender; sexuality and health development
Interests: translation studies; language; broadcasting; theatre
Interests: religion and politics, especially the influence of Catholicism on political thought and actions
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Interests: development and underdevelopment in Brazil, Latin America, and developing countries; racial inequality; affirmative action; quantitative methods applied to race and ethnic injustice; labor market; public policies monitoring and evaluation; poverty reduction programs; educational and health systems; land reform
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Interests: digital journalism; political communication; quality and narrative journalism; ethics
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Interests: racial inequality; urban violence; homicide trends; labor markets and work; racial threat; police use of force; racial stratification; quantitative research; macro-level research
Interests: ‘race’ and racism; exclusion; victimization; policing and social control; race/ethnic-based hate; violent behaviour
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Interests: race/ethnicity; juvenile justice system; juvenile court; treatment of underserved groups in justice settings
Interests: alcohol; substance use; violence; gender; deviance
Interests: political communication; political journalism; disinformation; public sphere; populism; social media
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Interests: social control; reaction to economic and hate crime; extremisms; social conflict; propaganda; social exclusion; discrimination against immigrants; social cohesion and social identity
Interests: sociology of education; immigration/immigrant youth; urban education; educational policy studies; racial equity; leadership
Interests: urban studies; housing policy; Japan; South Korea; welfare regimes
Interests: parenting; parent-child relationships; adolescent autonomy development; family decision-making; overparenting; information management; inductive discipline and parental psychological control
Interests: sociology of mental health; work-family; intersectional approaches to health; sociology of food
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Interests: social work and social policy in the areas of poverty, housing, marginality, democracy and participatory strategies
Interests: political economy; social class; ethics; social inequalities; critical realism; moral economy; post-Soviet economies; resistance; social movements; the voluntary sector; regional focus: Central Asia
Interests: globalization; inequality; urban sociology
Interests: young people, with a particular interest in youth transitions; youth transitions poverty; worklessness; poverty; social class
Interests: democratization; international politics; European Union and Central & Eastern Europe
Interests: world-system analysis; globalization; urbanization and development; comparative and historical sociology; labor studies; East Asian political economy; global cities and urban systems; Amazon and e-commerce; global supply chains
Interests: disability; marginality; global inequality; social determinants of health; cultural factors; political contexts; community well-being
Interests: policing; geographic criminology; place-based evaluations
Interests: crime analysis; prosecutor discretion; criminal sentencing; law and policy impact analysis; quantitative analysis
Interests: political science; comparative politics; international relations; political methodology; causal inference
Interests: platform studies; digital labor; intelligent technologies; gender and class; media and youth culture; communication theory and methods























