In The News: Department of Sociology

His book, 鈥淎merican Swastika: Inside the White Power Movement鈥檚 Hidden Spaces of Hate,鈥 cowritten with Robert Futrell, includes interviews with white supremacists and details how hate groups cultivate new members.

Jessica Washington, a single mother of two, moved from Chicago to Las Vegas in 2006 after she lost her airline job and needed a fresh start. In some ways, she found it: She moved into a roomy apartment, got hired by the Transportation Security Administration, and bought a used BMW. Then the police began stopping her.
Nevada lawmakers are weighing a bill for the fifth time in a number of years that would convert minor traffic violations from criminal offenses into civil infractions and remove the threat of incarceration.
The first images of 鈥淭he Last Battle鈥 seem designed to rile people on the conservative side of the culture wars: public nudity, strippers, children dressed in drag 鈥 symbols of a society supposedly in a moral free fall.

The first images of 鈥淭he Last Battle鈥 seem designed to rile people on the conservative side of the culture wars: public nudity, strippers, children dressed in drag鈥攕ymbols of a society supposedly in a moral free fall.

Far-right extremists are increasingly using more sophisticated methods to recruit new members.
For the past 14 months, Madam Dena has sat on a sprawling, abandoned ranch outside Las Vegas, overseeing an empty empire of themed bungalows, hotel rooms, and tennis courts.

Thirteen months of social distancing and masks, and it鈥檚 no wonder people are having less sex.
On February 2, 2021, Austrian authorities arrested a 36-years-old musician and rapper known as 鈥淢r. Bond鈥 for promoting neo-Nazism and inciting violence. Inspired by attacks against Jews and Muslims in the United States and New Zealand, Mr. Bond has released a song that praised the Pittsburgh synagogue shooter, the Poway synagogue shooter and the Christchurch mosques鈥 shooter and called to follow them.

Seven of the eight people killed were women; six were of Asian descent. The suspect, according to police, appeared to blame his actions on a 鈥渟ex addiction.鈥

Mark Hall-Patton faces the camera, ready to reveal nuggets of wisdom about the colorful historical events that once took place in Las Vegas and Clark County.
Social scientists ask Biden administration to embrace sex worker rights. In an open letter to President Joe Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris, a group of more than 250 researchers and scientists are calling for changes to the way that this country treats sex work and those engaged in it. Most prominently, the letter鈥攚hich comes in conjunction with International Sex Worker Rights Day, March 3鈥攕ays that sex work ought to be decriminalized.