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David Pyrooz, an associate professor of sociology at CU Boulder and a faculty associate at IBS, recently published a book that explores the inner workings of prison gangs. Pyrooz, along with his co-author, spent nine months interviewing inmates at two of the oldest prisons in Texas. In his book, Competing for Control: Gangs and the Social Orders of Prison, he breaks down some of the stereotypes surrounding prison gangs and gang members, and explores what gangs can and can’t offer from the eyes of actual members. 

As gang-related violence and homicide in prison begins to rise, Pyrooz encourages
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Since 1990, birth weights in the United States have declined due to the rise in cesarean sections. Andrea Tilstra, a PhD candidate in the Department of Sociology, and Ryan Masters, a social demographer in the Institute of Behavioral Sciences, worked together to research the cause of declining birth weights. Together, they analyzed over 23 million single births between 1990 and 2013 and came to the conclusion that an increase in obstetric interventions, specifically cesarean sections, has caused the decline in birth weights.  

“By intervening in the pregnancy instead of allowing it to reach its natural finality we are shifting when
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IBS's Center for the Study and Prevention of Violence (CSPV) was highlighted by the Colorado Arts and Sciences Magazine for their amazing work in securing an almost $1 million grant to evaluate the Colorado Threat Assessment and Management Protocol within Colorado schools. CSPV will be working with the Colorado School Safety Resource Center (CSSRC) to see just how well the protocol that was developed in 2011 has been working.  The grant is funded for three years in which they will update, refine, and pilot the protocol within five schools, then to follow up with the updated materials being used
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Four CU Boulder faculty members, including Lori Peek, Professor of Sociology and Director of the Natural Hazards Center, were recently awarded the Mellon grant. This prestigious award grants the team $225,000 from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation towards their environmental futures seminar. You can read more about their year-long program here. This is the first year CU has been selected to apply for the Mellon Sawyer Seminar Series grant.

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Article written by Sierra Gonzalez, IBS Student Assistant and Strategic Communications Major.