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The Rider (2026-09-21), Daniela Chapa-Reyes

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Vol. 12, No. 5

The Rider (2026-09-14), Daniela Chapa-Reyes

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Vol. 12, No. 4

The Rider (2026-09-08), Daniela Chapa-Reyes

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Vol. 12, No. 3

Is Prenatal Contraceptive Counseling Enough? Intimate Partner Violence Timing And Postpartum Contraception In Hispanic Women, Lucas E. Espinoza, Luis Enrique Espinoza, Paris G. Rangel, Jennifer L. Talleff, Amiee Griffis

Criminal Justice Faculty Publications

Purpose: Intimate partner violence (IPV) is a major public health concern that can impact women’s reproductive decisions, but how IPV timing and prenatal contraceptive counseling are associated with postpartum contraceptive use in Hispanic women is poorly understood. This study examines the association between IPV timing, prenatal contraceptive counseling, and postpartum contraceptive use among Hispanic women.

Methods: Data were drawn from the 2019–2020 Pregnancy Risk Assessment Monitoring System and included 11,721 Hispanic women who had recently given birth. IPV was classified based on timing as none, preconception, prenatal, or both. Multivariable logistic regression models were estimated with analyses moderated and stratified …

The Rider (2026-08-31), Daniela Chapa-Reyes

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Vol. 12, No. 2

The Rider (2026-08-26), Daniela Chapa-Reyes

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Vol. 12, No. 1

Public Blame And Prevention Preferences Following K-12 School Shootings: Mean World Beliefs And Doomscrolling, Jennifer L. Lemanski, Gordon A. Crews

Communication Faculty Publications

This study examines how routine digital media use shapes public blame attribution and prevention preferences following K-12 school shootings. Drawing on Mean World Syndrome (MWS) and research on doomscrolling, the study investigates whether habitual exposure to threatening and sensationalized content is associated with patterns of digital engagement and interpretations of responsibility for school shooting events. Using a nationwide survey of U.S. adults (N = 540), the study measured MWS, doomscrolling tendencies, political orientation, blame attribution, and engagement behaviors such as seeking information, sharing, and commenting on school violence–related content. Canonical correlation analyses indicate that higher levels of MWS and doomscrolling …

Teaching Peace Where Borders Divide: Interdisciplinary Praxis In A Criminal Justice Program, Lucas Espinoza

Criminal Justice Faculty Publications

This article describes a criminal justice senior-level undergraduate course, CRIJ 4350: Peace, Nonviolence, & Justice, at a Hispanic-serving institution known as the University of Texas Rio Grande Valley, in the U.S.-Mexico borderlands. The course centers five key frameworks: critical pedagogy, intersectionality, decolonial theory, restorative and transformative justice, and trauma-informed care, as this course departs from carceral models of justice education. Grounded in theory, literature, and research from criminal justice, criminology, peace and conflict studies, sociology, political science, ethics/philosophy, social justice, human rights, and critical pedagogy, the course centers student reflection from course evaluations, relationships, and experiences of a faculty member. …

Stronger Together Program: Justice For Latino Youth Involved In The Juvenile Justice System, Leyla Feize, Marisa Ugalde, John M. Gonzalez, Tamer Oraby

School of Social Work Faculty Publications

Adolescents are vulnerable to delinquent behaviors during their period of cognitive and emotional development. Latino adolescents are often more vulnerable to delinquency behaviors and are over-involved in the juvenile system. Ten Latino youths and 15 parents/guardians participated in a culturally adapted Functional Family Therapy (FFT) intervention program. The behavioral change of the youths was measured using pre- and post-test scores on the Sorensen Self-Esteem test questionnaire and the Low Self-Control Measure. The parents/guardians’ behavioral change was measured using pre- and post-test scores from the Family Interpersonal Relationship Questionnaire. The results indicated that the youths’ self-esteem increased. The change in self-control …

The Rider (2026-04-27), Daniela Chapa-Reyes

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Vol. 11, No. 28

The Rider (2026-04-20), Daniela Chapa-Reyes

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Vol. 11, No. 27

The Rider (2026-04-13), Daniela Chapa-Reyes

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Vol. 11, No. 26

The Rider (2026-04-06), Daniela Chapa-Reyes

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Vol. 11, No. 25

The Rider (2026-03-23), Daniela Chapa-Reyes

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Vol. 11, No. 23

The Rider (2026-03-09), Daniela Chapa-Reyes

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Vol. 11, No. 22

The Rider (2026-03-02), Daniela Chapa-Reyes

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Vol. 11, No. 21

The Rider (2026-02-23), Daniela Chapa-Reyes

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Vol. 11, No. 20

The Rider (2026-02-16), Daniela Chapa-Reyes

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Vol. 11, No. 19

The Rider (2026-02-09), Daniela Chapa-Reyes

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Vol. 11, No. 18

From Commonality To Unity: The Opportunities And Challenges Of Latinxs’ Cross-Racial Alliances With Blacks, Álvaro José Corral

School of Political Science, Public Affairs, Legal and Security Studies Faculty Publications

As a racialized group that is subject to discrimination, US Latinxs are often considered “natural” coalitional partners for Black-led civil rights struggles. Although the BLM movement may serve as a potential site for cross-racial coalition building because both Latinxs and Blacks suffer from racial profiling by law enforcement, the development of a shared status across group boundaries hinges on the interpretation by Latinxs of both their personal- and group-level discrimination experiences. Using the 2020 CMPS, I explore how multiple dimensions of Latinx racial group consciousness (perceptions of discrimination, intra- and intergroup commonality, and racial identity) shape their cross-racial alliances with …

The Rider (2026-02-02), Daniela Chapa-Reyes

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Vol. 11, No. 17

Marx And Engels On Prisons And Capitalism, James Parisot

Sociology Faculty Publications

This paper rethinks Marx and Engels’ comments on imprisonment and capitalism. While there has been a tendency to suggest the authors’ comments on crime and punishment were peripheral and secondary to their major projects, such as Marx’s Capital, this paper claims, in fact, their writings on incarceration were guided by their shared theoretical project which included historicizing systems of punishment as correlating with modes of production. Also, while more has been written on their ideas of criminality, instead, this paper excavates their thoughts on prisons, which have often been neglected. Overall, it shows there has been a tendency to …

The Rider (2026-01-26), Daniela Chapa-Reyes

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Vol. 11, No. 16

The Rider (2026-01-20), Daniela Chapa-Reyes

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Vol. 11, No. 15

Review Of Injustice At The Intersections: Race, Gender, Class, And Criminal, Yudu Li

Open Educational Resources - Reviews

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Convergence Of Social Justice, Human Rights, And Artificial Intelligence (Ai), Sudershan Pasupuleti, Urmila Yadav, Susheelabai R. Srinivasa

School of Social Work Faculty Publications

Artificial Intelligence and large data machine learning are transforming many areas, including healthcare, economic, political, and educational social institutions, at their best. Artificial intelligence can also be offered the moral and legal potential to safeguard human rights and social justice in society. For instance, human rights organizations scan public domain images for evidence of abuse, or software uses adversarial techniques to reduce bias in training data. At best, some organizations and businesses are tackling these challenges in a proactive manner, looking for methods to make sure they avoid or identify concerns before they arise; for others, this may be a …

Child Maltreatment And Recidivism: Do Maltreatment Patterns Influence General And Violent Reoffending?, Nan Li, Matt Shelton, Elena L. Grigorenko

Psychological Science Faculty Publications

This study examined whether patterns of maltreatment predicted reoffending among 5,194 justice-involved youth (JIY) from a large Texas juvenile probation department. Using latent class analysis on five maltreatment types (physical abuse, emotional abuse, sexual abuse, neglect, and exposure to domestic violence), we empirically identified three classes: “Poly-victimization” (17.8%; high across all types), “Psychological Maltreatment” (15.3%; high emotional abuse and neglect), and “Low Maltreatment” (66.9%; low/moderate across types). JIY in the “Poly-victimization” and “Psychological Maltreatment” classes were more likely to engage in general and violent reoffending within 1 year controlling for covariates. These findings highlight the varying importance of different maltreatment …

The Rider (2025-12-08), Daniela Martinez Salazar

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Vol. 11, No. 14

The Equity Implications Of Pecuniary Externalities On An Electric Grid, Charles Sims, Gasser G. Ali, J Scott Holladay, Tim Roberson, Chien-Fei Chen, Islam H. El-Haddad

Civil Engineering Faculty Publications

The adoption of rooftop photovoltaic (PV) systems can create upward pressure on retail electricity rates as utilities are forced to spread their fixed costs of generation and transmission across a smaller customer base. Since high-income households are more likely to purchase PV systems, low-income households may be disproportionately impacted by these rate increases. Using a novel combination of agent-based computational economic modeling and a choice experiment of rooftop solar adoption, we show how this pecuniary externality between low- and high-income customers increases low-income electricity bills by 10% in an area with some of the highest poverty rates in the United …

Applicability Of Cementochronology To Estimate Season-Of-Death In Humans: Insights From Modern Documented Collections, Olga Ibarra-Sanchez

Theses and Dissertations

Dental cementum is characterized by lifelong deposition of alternating opaque annuli in fall/winter and translucent bands in spring/summer. This study aims to test the applicability of cementochronology to estimate season-of-death, by observing the properties of the last layer, with direct implications for forensic anthropology and bioarchaeology. The sample includes canine teeth from 146 adults (84 males, 62 females), age-at-death ranging from 20-97 years (mean=61.7 years, SD=18.6 years), from two contemporary skeletal collections. Of these individuals, 78 (53.4%) died in spring/summer and 68 (46.6%) died in fall/winter. Overall accuracy was low at 64.4% (94/146). Accuracy was higher for spring/summer deaths 100.0% …