Do male and female judges differ in how they sentence sexual offenders? Does gender make a difference? Explore this question further in Soudouk's (2022) "Sexual Assault Sentencing: A Game of Diverging Interests Among Male and Female Judges?" ojs.lib.uwo.ca/index.php/js... #SexualAssault #GenderBias

Does Education on Consent Predict Prosocial Bystander Attitudes? Thiessen and Buchanan's (2022) quantitative research found that it is important for young people to receive education on consent from parents to promote prosocial bystander attitudes regarding sexual assault.

"Sexual assault victims are more likely to be young, women, and students (Statistics Canada, 2017). Therefore, high school and university settings are where intervention methods are most needed to prevent sexual assault."

"To date, few scholars have illustrated the detrimental and subversive day-to-day disciplinary tactics perpetrators implement in the absence of overt recognizable violence." #IntimatePartnerViolence #CoerciveControl #HegemonicMasculinity

Acts of domestic abuse can remain unnoticed by the public and are often masked from the stigmatizing gaze of society. How was this control concealed? Check out MacMillan's work, "An Omnipresent Gaze: Men’s Enactment of Coercive Control in the Private Sphere."

"Diverse racial coexistence is insufficient to solve problems of racism. Multiracial mobilization by civil society along simultaneous multi-issue dimensions is the roadway."

Operationalizing “racial harmony” involves two components: (1) attitudinally, when members of dis-tinct racial groups confess that they are happy about living together (Thomas 2002) and

"During the Brexit campaign period, the presentation of the Traveller Community in the British media contributed to the further racialization and othering of the community."

What critical component of the Brexit campaign's migration control focus has nearly all research overlooked? It is Antiziganism.

In Vol.6 of JST, we are excited to present articles speaking to key issues of race and gender, and the violence and control that can persist when ideologies and structures are not addressed. The editor's introduction is available at: ojs.lib.uwo.ca/index.php/js... #Gender #Race #Socialstructures

"In advancing the spirit of open science, we suggest that researchers create a pre-registered plan for bot removal, include as many of the techniques in the toolbox as they can, and report it in their paper." #Onlinesurvey #Surveying #Survey

"Within the span of a few hours, they arrived by the hundreds and would continue to thwart our best attempts at both preventing bot access to our survey and separating them from human respondents over the next 18 days." — King-Nyberg, Thomson, Morris-Reade, Borgen, and Taylor

"The gender boxes activity serves as a flawed yet promising example of the ways in which invitational and interactive activities can be introduced into on-campus anti-violence work." For Brockbank's detailed findings and discussions, check out: ojs.lib.uwo.ca/index.php/js... #GBV

How can men’s active participation in redressing gender-based and sexual violence (GBSV) on Ontario postsecondary campuses be facilitated, and how can they become allies in ending GBSV?

"The reasoning behind these attitudes toward ASMR ... appears to obey socially specific logics of embodiment that try to identify, judge, regulate, and hierarchize body practices as well as the embodied self’s relation to sensory and affective stimuli." #ASMR #Aesthetics #Sociology

“Autonomous Sensory Meridian Response (ASMR) is described as the experience of pleasurable, static-like sensations triggered by audio-visual stimuli” (Barratt & Davis, 2015). However, society still lacks a clear understanding of this experience. #ASMR #Aesthetics #Sociology

"Ghana’s socio-economic development hinges on their youth and it is imperative for the government and other bodies to pursue policies that will help improve their living so they might contribute significantly to the country." — KANWETUU, WORAE, & ACHEAMPONG (2023)

Female head porterage (kayayei) is the most common livelihood for young and adult female migrants moving from northern to southern Ghana. Yet, two research gaps remain: 1. What are their lived experiences outside of the capital (Accra)? 2. How do the women cope with the challenges of this work?

Today, we introduce the Editor’s Note for Volume 7: Contemporary Issues through a Critical Lens. Editors Ina and Melissa provide a clear summary of the works published in this 2023 volume. Read the article here: ojs.lib.uwo.ca/index.php/js...

✨ Looking for innovative ideas in sociology and the social sciences? JST is a peer-reviewed, open access journal run by graduate students in Sociology at Western University (Canada). We publish works from grad students, post-docs, academics, and independent scholars.