The recruitment into gangs is not simply an issue of individual criminality or policing, but the result of institutional failures and conditions that make some youth more vulnerable.
Articles on Structural inequality
Displaying all articles
Researchers measured lawmakers’ wealth and found that those whose Southern ancestors owned slaves before abolition have a higher net worth today.
The cycle of opportunity and prestige for historically advantaged institutions leaves historically Black institutions on the back foot.
Impact of Race and Culture Assessments can reduce the overrepresentation of Black people in the justice system.
Edwina Preston reflects on the lost art of hanging out – which feeds creativity – and the need to reclaim time from the pressures of productivity. She draws on new books by Jenny Odell and Sheila Liming.
Yoga, manifesting, and #livingyourbestlife may sound empowering. But wellness blames women, sets them up for failure, and hides the real challenges women face.
Romani children across Europe are overrepresented in institutional care. Research shows widely held prejudical views and structural inequality is to blame.
China has been very successful at crime control while South Africa has neglected rehabilitation and failed dismally at resettling ex-offenders.
The provincial government has funding to support non-police safety and well-being initiatives — but 99 per cent of it just supplements police budgets.
It’s past time to dismantle the (often invisible) barriers that keep people with disabilities less healthy, employed and educated than other groups worldwide.
The understandable outrage at neo-Nazis rallying for Trump shouldn’t distract from the complex realities of American racism.
Lee: ‘Business will be far from usual in a world of four, five or six degrees of warming.’
Top contributors
-
Senior Lecturer in Psychology and Associate Head of School, Charles Sturt University
-
PhD Candidate, Charles Sturt University
-
Professeur honoraire, Université Grenoble Alpes (UGA)
-
Senior lecturer, St Petersburg State University
-
Professor of Constitutional Law & Human Rights, Universidad de Palermo
-
Professor, Asian Institute of Technology
-
Professor in Global Governance and Public Policy at the University of Bristol, and Co-Director, Center for Climate Change and Development, Alex Ekwueme Federal University Ndufu-Alike
-
Deputy Director, Independent University, Bangladesh
-
Researcher in Ecology, Universidade Federal do Pará (UFPA); Empresa Brasileira de Pesquisa Agropecuária (Embrapa)
-
Professor of Economics, Sylff-JU Project Director, Coordinator Global Change Programme-JU, Jadavpur University
-
Directrice de recherche CNRS, Aix-Marseille Université (AMU)
-
University Lecturer in American History, University of Cambridge
-
Senior Lecturer in Political and Development Geography, University of Sheffield
-
Professor in Tourism Geography, University of Johannesburg
-
Lecturer in social work and sociology, Lancaster University