Mona J. E. Danner

Old Dominion University | ODU · Department of Sociology and Criminal Justice

Research on women sex workers’ condom use with non-paying intimate partners suggests social norms of gender power in these relationships constrain women’s health-enhancing sexual practice. Theorizing gender relations and sexual practice as structural informs our analysis of elements of community mobilization interventions (CMI) that link to sex wor...

Regulatory rollbacks under the Trump administration are heightening social divides and deepening social inequalities. In this article, we examine key dynamics underlying this trend including the changing character of the nation-state, the growth of executive power, and the increased use of the “administrative presidency.” The administration’s choic...

Police shootings are events that result in psychological trauma to all involved, including police officers. Little work explores how officers and their social and professional networks that are involved in deadly police shootings cope with this event. Utilizing one case study, we hear how an officer involved in a deadly shooting, and those close to...

In this study, we elaborate connections among gender, structure, and practice to suggest how social structural relations shape social sexual practice and, in the process, reshape gender relations. Using survey data from a study of a community mobilization intervention, we investigate the connection between institutional arrangements and condom use...

This paper explores justice-related perceptions among tribal police officers providing service within a southeastern Indian Reservation in the United States. Interviews with 27 tribal police officers were conducted to understand the manner of the administration of tribal justice. Almost half of the participants interviewed felt that their tribal ju...

Drawing on insights from feminist scholars and activists, this article examines the dialectical relationship between climate change and the social construction of gender. We examine in detail how gender inequalities associated with capitalism, particularly in its latest Neoliberal incarnation, help to produce global warming, as well as to produce g...

American Indians frequently experience high rates of crime and victimization, as well as poverty, substance abuse, and limited availability and poor quality of victim and social services. Their interactions with the criminal justice system are made difficult by the location, environmental surroundings, size and density of their reservations, the co...

Many countries struggle with the question of appropriate social welfare spending. Here we test several hypotheses about the dynamics between social welfare spending and crime. We do so using pooled, cross-national time-series data. Our findings suggest that per capita social welfare spending is associated with lower rates of both theft and homicide...

Following September 2001, the United States engaged a war on terror that involved significantly tightening immigration procedures and border controls, and loosening legal standards related to surveillance and detention. Politicians and state agents vilified those who questioned the morality or legality of state actions in the war on terror. They ar...

Punitive attitudes of the general public were the focus of a considerable amount of research. Much of the work focused on the demographic correlates of punitive attitudes and only a limited amount of research focused on how punitive attitudes were justified. That is, what does the public want to get out of punishing criminal offenders? In this rese...

A telephone survey of 840 registered voters from Virginia is seeks to discover 1) citizen support for probation; 2)how citizens justify use of probation over other sanctions; and 3) whether the justification and sentencing recommendations are consistent across crimes. Results suggest that respondents tend to see probation as a rehabilitative tool r...

In this article, a sociologist and a criminologist argue that recent analysis from feminist men's studies points to ways to challenge the masculine institutions involved in global economic restructuring and the global war on terrorism. The expansion of state control - in the name of security and fighting terrorism - represents a new aspect of globa...

The shootings at Columbine and Jonesboro, along with multiple shootings at five other schools, captured the nation's attention and received widespread media coverage. Utilizing a feminist perspective that addresses masculinity, we explore research and major newspaper coverage of infamous school violence to determine how extensively gender is consid...

The practice of sustainable development requires society to equally and simultaneously address economic enhancement along with actions that offer environmental protection, while also insuring that the most disadvantaged people in our communities are provided the ability to improve their quality of life. The ethnic and class stratification of differ...

The official document of the United Nations Fourth World Conference on Women—Platform for Action for Equality, Development and Peace—calls for the collection and improvement of gender-disaggregated data because of their importance for planning and evaluation toward achieving women’s empowerment. This article examines the resources available and dis...

The official document of the United Nations Fourth World Conference on Women—Platform for Action for Equality, Development and Peace—calls for the collection and improvement of gender-disaggregated data because of their importance for planning and evaluation toward achieving women’s empowerment. This article examines the resources available and dis...

The Shetland Islands took considerable trouble to anticipate the effects of oil exploration on their culture. They aimed to preserve their local industries of agriculture, fishing, and knitwear, and to maintain the low rate of serious crime. Although the policies were not entirely successful, the Shetland Islands seem to have preserved their cultur...

This paper extends the conceptualisation and refines the operationalisation of gender inequality. The aim is to bridge theory - on gender relations - and measurement - of the reality of gender for women and men - by means of a set of social indicators of gender inequality. We first elaborate the concept of gender inequality and differentiate it fro...

The use of crime scenarios in sample surveys is the principal method for assessing public valuations of crime seriousness. The adequacy of this method is heavily dependent upon the a priori assumptions of the researchers constructing these scenarios. If crucial attributes of crime incidents are omitted from these descriptions of a crime, then resul...