News in Brief The Average Prisoner Is Visited Only Twice While Incarcerated And black prisoners receive even fewer visitors. Chris Uggen
Social Justice Violence Against Women Is on the Decline—but We Can Still Do More Rates of sexual violence in the United States, whether measured by arrest or victimization, have declined by over 50 percent over the last 20 years. Chris Uggen
Social Justice Should Drug Treatment Aim to End Use or Reduce Harm? Achieving one of those results is hard enough. And recent experiments suggest we may not be able to have both even if we want to. Chris Uggen
Social Justice The Truth About Violence and Gun Policy in the United States We need to stop spinning the research on mass shootings and acts of terror—the outliers—so that we can focus on more common and deadlier threats. Chris Uggen