Books written by James D. Wright

Covenant Marriage: The Movement to Reclaim Tradition in America

Caplow, T., L. Hicks, L., and B. J. Wattenberg. 2001. The First Measured Century. Washington, DC: AEI Press. Casper, L. M., and S. M. Bianchi. 2002. Continuity and Change in the American Family. Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage.
The State of the Masses

... Harwin L., 149, 425 Vroom, Victor H., 85, 449 w Walker, Charles R., 19, 256-258, 266, 449 Walker, J., 449 Walker, ... Charles N., 37n, 145n, 148, 193n, 215n, 231, 288, 430 Weber, Max, 9, 318, 377, 449 Weinberg, Arthur S., 269, ...
Under the Gun: Weapons, Crime, and Violence in America

See Guns , military Miller , L. , 202 Moorman , Charles B. , 76 , 77 Morton Grove ( Illinois ) , 310 Munford , Robert , 157 ... 120 O'Connor , James F. , 107 , 108 , 111 O'Neal , Edward , 202 O'Neill , Michael T. , 69 Outdoor recreation ...
In the Line of Fire: Youths, Guns, and Violence in Urban America

An argument can easily be made that involvement in drugs leads one to possess , carry , and use firearms ( Inciardi 1992 : Ch . 5 ) ; recent longitudinal data analyses regarding gang members also point to such a conclusion ( Thornberry ...
Armed and Considered Dangerous: A Survey of Felons and Their Firearms

Inciardi , James A. ( ed . ) 1981 The Drugs - Crime Connection . Beverly Hills , CA : Sage . Jones , Edward D. 1981 " The District of Columbia's ' Firearms Control Regulations Act of 1975 : ' The toughest handgun control law in the ...
Drugs as a Social Problem

Justice Quarterly 6 ( September ) : 419-55 . Inciardi JA . 1986. The War on Drugs . Palo Alto , CA : Mayfield . Inciardi JA ( ed . ) . 1990. Handbook of Drug Control in the United States . New York : Greenwood Press . Inciardi JA ( ed . ) ...
Lost Souls: Manners and Morals in Contemporary American Society

Inciardi, James A., 1986. The War on Drugs. Palo Alto, CA: Mayfield. Iveniuk, James, and Edward O. Laumann, 2015. Heterosexuality. In James D. Wright (ed.), The International Encyclopedia of the Social and Behavioral Sciences, 2nd ed.
Address Unknown: The Homeless in America

Finding the origins of the problem to be social and political rather than economic, Wright (human relations, Tulane) outlines remedies based on existing and modified
Beside the Golden Door: Policy, Politics, and the Homeless

Written for the general public as well as for specialists, this volume details some of the numerous dimensions of the homelessness issue: the rise in poverty; the decline of low-income housing: problems in counting the homeless; the role of ...
International Encyclopedia of the Social & Behavioral Sciences

Fully revised and updated, the second edition of the International Encyclopedia of the Social and Behavioral Sciences, first published in 2001, offers a source of social and behavioral sciences reference material that is broader and deeper ...
A Florida State of Mind: An Unnatural History of Our Weirdest State

In A Florida State of Mind: An Unnatural History of Our Weirdest State, James D. Wright makes the case that there are plenty of reasons to be scandalized by the land and its sometimes-kooky, sometimes-terrifying denizens, but there's also ...
Handbook of Survey Research

Reaching the U.S. cell phone generation: Comparison of cell phone survey results with an ongoing landline telephone survey ... E. de Leeuw, L. Japec, P. J. Lavrakas, M. Link & R. Sangster (Eds), Advances in telephone survey methodology.
Beside the Golden Door: Policy, Politics, and the Homeless

Written for the general public as well as for specialists, this volume details some of the numerous dimensions of the homelessness issue: the rise in poverty; the decline of low-income housing: problems in counting the homeless; the role of ...
The Dissent of the Governed: Alienation and Democracy in America

The Dissent of the Governed: Alienation and Democracy in America
A Florida State of Mind: An Unnatural History of Our Weirdest State

Parts of the state are populated almost exclusively by exmidwesterners, and as Freie says, “It's like there is some unwritten White Midwestern Rule that retirement = snowbirding in Florida, usually on 'the gulfside.
Under the Gun: Weapons, Crime, and Violence in America

The review and analysis of the available studies consumed the better part of three years; the results of this work are contained in this volume.
Armed and Considered Dangerous: A Survey of Felons and Their Firearms

Armed and Considered Dangerous: A Survey of Felons and Their Firearms
Hunger in the Land of Plenty: A Critical Look at Food Insecurity

Challenging conventional wisdom, the authors of Hunger in the Land of Plenty explore the causes and consequences of food insecurity; assess some of the major policies and programs that have been designed to reduce it; and consider ...
Address Unknown: The Homeless in America

... Down and Out in America: The Origins of HomelessDown and Out in America: The Origins of Homelessness.ness. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1989; Joel Blau, Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1989; Joel Blau, The Visible Poor ...
Greatest of Evils: Urban Poverty and the American Underclass

The result is an incisive and cogently documented narrative account leading to policy recommendations for a new president and a new era. In The Greatest of Evils, Devine and Wright develop three principal themes.