“But academic research has found that incarcerated immigrants face tougher punishment on average, with sentences that are longer by months or years than nonimmigrants. Michael Light, a sociology professor at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, looked …
Month: February 2026
Out-of-Home-Care Rates among Indigenous and Non-Indigenous Children in Countries With Histories of Settler Colonialism by Martin Eiermann, Mikkeline Munk Nielsen, Christopher Wildeman, and Peter Fallesen (2025)
Child Maltreatment Abstract: Indigenous children in settler-colonial societies have historically been exposed to frequent family separation; yet contemporary family separation through out-of-home-care (OOHC) remains understudied. We analyzed annual OOHC rates among indigenous and non-indigenous children …
Building a Broken Wall: Small Cities, Nonpartisanship, and Polarization by Benny Witkovsky (2025)
Theory and Social Inquiry Abstract: Nonpartisanship has been a core element of U.S. local governments for over a century. Today, these institutions face a new challenge as polarization has grown more intense, intimate, and ideological. …
Curtis Yarvin: Postliberalism with Computational Characteristics by James Rosenberg (2025)
IWMPost “As the authoritarian right advances in the United States, developing an accurate understanding of its worldview is a task of some urgency. One way of doing so is by considering the writings of one …
Rose Lavelle named Female Player of the Year by U.S. Soccer
In 2017, Sociology major Rose Lavelle graduated from UW-Madison. Fast forward to today, and Rose has added another achievement to her impressive resume: she was named the 2025 Female Player of the Year by U.S. …