Department Head and Franklin Professor of Sociology, William Pridemore, is co-author on a newly published article in Justice Quarterly, one of two flagship journals in the field of criminology. The study examined how (1) the legitimacy citizens’ grant to their governments and (2) remittances, which is when foreign workers send money home to their families or others close to them, affect violence rates in Latin American nations. You can read it here: https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/07418825.2023.2291122
