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British Journal of Criminology, 2024

Research finds that immigration and crime are not related across neighbourhoods, contrary to social disorganization theory and consistent with the immigration revitalization thesis. This research, however, is largely silent as to any possible nonlinear effects. Yet social theory offers sound reasons for why the immigration-crime association may be nonlinear; explanations, including immigrant/ethnic enclave theory and immigrant victimization theory, underscore potential concentration effects-albeit in different ways. Using a novel dataset with information on crime in over 15,000 neighbourhoods across a diverse range of US cities, we examine whether or not the immigration-crime association is nonlinear. We find that for both violent and property crime, a nonlinear relationship best captures the relationship. In additional analyses, we determine the theoretical perspective with which the findings are most consistent.

International Journal of Academic Research in Business & Social Sciences, 2023

Academic writing or expository writing is different in many ways than narrative or descriptive essays. While the latter retells the writers' experience and observations, the former requires writers to think and plan before they can begin writing. This is because writing no longer depends on their memory. They soon discover essay writing is not merely transferring from their oral thoughts to written thoughts. They cannot just retell what they think they already know in their memory. They have to find for valid information (content knowledge), check the validity of the information (problem analysis and set goals) and then write the information in a proper manner (discourse knowledge). They are not only required to knowledge-tell but also knowledge-transform information into their writing task. This study is done to explore the difficulties that writers face when write academic essays. This qualitative study is done to explore the how writers feel about the difficulties they faced in writing expository essays. 20 participants were purposively chosen from students who attended a semester of academic writing course for the first time in the university. 10 of the participants were from the social sciences discipline while 10 of them were from the science and technology discipline. Findings revealed that academic writers faced difficulties in problem analysis & goal setting, content knowledge and also discourse knowledge. Findings of this study adds on to the body of knowledge in understanding why academic writers find their writing task difficult.

Oh, that's awful, Liam. It's really annoying. What gets on my nerves is bad table manners. I've got a really funny story about this. A few months ago, I went to a restaurant with my family. While we were trying to decide what to order, we heard some strange noises coming from the table behind us. It was a man slurping his soup really loudly. When he finished, he started complaining to the waiter that his steak was tough and the potatoes were overcooked. We felt really sorry for the waiter. The final straw was when he sneezed loudly without covering his mouth and a piece of bread flew out of his mouth and onto our table. I've never seen anything like it. Anyway, about a week later, my dad read an article in the food section of a newspaper about difficult customers and the way restaurants deal with them. At the top of the page, there was a picture of the writer and… you guessed it. It was the man in the restaurant with the bad manners! He was a restaurant critic. Oh, eso es horrible, Liam. Es realmente molesto. Lo que saca de quicio es malos modales en la mesa. Tengo una historia muy divertida sobre esto. Hace unos meses, fui a un restaurante con mi familia. Mientras que estábamos tratando de decidir qué orden, oímos unos ruidos extraños provenientes de la mesa detrás de nosotros. Era un hombre sorbiendo la sopa muy fuerte. Cuando terminó, se empezó a quejar con el camarero que su carne estaba dura y las patatas estaban cocidas. Nos sentimos muy mal por el camarero. El colmo fue cuando estornudó ruidosamente sin cubrirse la boca y un trozo de pan le escapó de la boca y en nuestra mesa. Nunca he visto nada igual. En fin, una semana más tarde, mi padre leyó un artículo en la sección de alimentos de un periódico acerca de los clientes difíciles y la forma en que los restaurantes lidiar con ellos. En la parte superior de la página, había una foto del escritor y ... habéis adivinado. Era el hombre en el restaurante con los malos modales! Era un crítico de restaurantes.

2022

This graduate seminar offers a general overview of the methodological issues and approaches that dominate and are emerging in the contemporary practice of comparative-historical social science. It is also practical and hands-on, designed to give you concrete experience working with historical data and skills for future research. It is deliberately open-ended. The purpose of the class is to provide a shared language and overarching conceptual framework that will allow you to pursue your own research, with a clearer understanding of the consequences of making specific methodological choices. Comparative historical sociology is both a subdiscipline and an ‘interdiscipline’ (connecting sociology, political science, history, IR, and others) in the midst of transformation. This course also provides a broader sense of both methodological problems and the continuing openness and creativity of the field. The class is organized into several modules. We will cover opening grounds of debate (ontology, epistemology and comparative-historical sociology); general aspects of and problems in research design; and methods of empirical inquiry. Exemplars of approaches will also be featured, and we will incorporate students’ specific substantive interests as they evolve.