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How the law harms sex workers—and what they want instead. Do you have to endorse prostitution in order to support sex worker rights? Should clients be criminalized, and can the police deliver justice? In Revolting Prostitutes, sex workers Juno Mac and Molly Smith bring a fresh perspective to questions that have long been contentious. Speaking from a growing global sex worker rights movement, and situating their argument firmly within wider questions of migration, work, feminism, and resistance to white supremacy, they make it clear that anyone committed to working towards justice and freedom should be in support of the sex worker rights movement.

The mixing of newcomers, longtime nonfarm residents, and farm household residents in exurban areas has the potential to lead to conflicts over community change and farming. Data from a survey of residents of an Ohio exurban region are analyzed to identify attitudinal differences among three sets of exurban residents. Several attitudinal differences among farm households, newcomers, and long-time residents are identified with farm household residents reporting greater concern about the effects of growth on local rural character than both newcomers and longtime nonfarm residents did. Farm household respondents were also more tolerant and accepting of agricultural annoyances than were either newcomers or longtime residents. All sets of residents are supportive of efforts to preserve local farmland. A conclusion of this exurban case study is that conflicts about land use and community change may have more to do with farm versus nonfarm interest than with length of residence in the community.

Gang members are overrepresented among incarcerated populations in the United States. The link between incarceration and gang membership is beyond dispute, but serious questions remain about the causal mechanisms underlying this relationship. In this study, we develop and test theoretical models—origination, manifestation, and intensification—that focus on whether gang membership is exogenous or endogenous to incarceration. We used 7 years of monthly life calendar data nested within an 11‐wave longitudinal study of 1,336 serious offenders in Philadelphia and Phoenix to examine the effects of incarceration on gang membership. Multilevel models indicated that offenders were more likely to be in gangs while incarcerated in jail and prison settings than when not, although longer spells of incarceration corresponded with prolonged gang membership only in Phoenix. Incarceration in juvenile facilities maintained adverse between‐ and within‐individual effects on gang membership only in Phoenix. Additional descriptive findings revealed that gang status was durable to transitions into and out of incarcerated settings, and that more offenders exited than entered gangs while incarcerated. We situate these findings within our theoretical models and the body of knowledge on incarceration, concluding with a call for future research that is focused on the symbiosis between gangs in street and incarcerated settings.