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Faculty Publications

• Gertrud Lenzer, "Whither Sociology? Some Reflections on the Ideas of ‘Globalization’ and ‘SocialCapital.’" International Review of Sociology 17.3, November 2007 (pdf)
• Gertrud Lenzer, "The Future of Children: The Great Enigma." SOSkinderdorforum, June 2003 (pdf)
• Gertrud Lenzer, "Children's Studies: Beginnings and Purposes." The Lion and The Unicorn 25, 2001 (pdf)
• Gertrud Lenzer, "The Human Rights Agenda and the Rights of Children: Towards a Unified Approach." Whittier Law Review 21, 1999 (pdf)
• Gertrud Lenzer, "The Importance of Children's Rights Programs in Academic Institutions." Loyola Poverty Law Journal 4, 1998. School of Law, Loyola University, New Orleans (pdf)
• Gertrud Lenzer, "Children's Studies and the Arts and Sciences: Recent Trends." Understanding Children's Rights. Collected Papers Presented at University of Ghent (Belgium), July 1996. Ed. Eugeen Verhellen. Pages 169–73 (pdf).
• Fox, M. & Stoudt, B. (In press.) Outrageous disparities: Young people's perspectives on wealth inequality, collectivity, and hope in New York City. In Peter Kelly and Lyn Harrison (Eds) Young people and politics of outrage and hope. Lieden, The Netherlands: Brill. (Books and Publications: Chapter) 2017
• Fox, M. & Fine, M. Leadership in solidarity: Notions of leadership through critical participatory action research with young people and adults. New Directions in Student Leadership, 2015 (148), 45 ? 58. doi: 10.1002/yd.20152 (Books and Publications: Peer Reviewed Article) 2015
• Fox, M. & Fine, M. Accountable to whom? A critical science counter-story about a city that stopped caring for its young. Children & Society, 27(4). (Books and Publications: Peer Reviewed Article) 2013
• Niwa, E.Y., Boxer, P., Dubow, E., Huesmann, L.R., Landau, S., Gvirsman, S.D., Shikaki, K., & Ginges, J. (In press). Growing up amid ethno-political conflict: Aggression and emotional desensitization promote hostility to ethnic out-groups. To appear in Child Development. (Books and Publications: Peer Reviewed Article) 2016.
• Niwa, E.Y., Rogers, O., & Way, N. (in press). An Ecological Model of Peer Relationships. To appear in L.S. Balter & C. Tamis-LeMonda (Eds.), Child Psychology: A Handbook of Contemporary Issues, 3rd Edition. Psychology Press: New York. (Books and Publications: Edited Book) 2016
• Niwa, E.Y., Boxer, P., Dubow, E., Huesmann, L.R., Landau, S., Shikaki, K., & Gvirsman, S.D.(2014). Negative Stereotypes of Ethnic Out-groups: A Longitudinal Examination among Palestinian, Israeli Jewish, and Israeli Arab Youth. Journal of Research on Adolescence, 26(1), 166-179.
• Niwa, E.Y., Way, N., Qin-Hilliard, D.B., & Okazaki, S. (2011). Hostile Hallways: Asian American adolescents? experiences of peer discrimination in school. In F.T.L. Leong, L. Juang, D.B. Qin, & H.E. Fitzgerald (Eds.), Asian American and Pacific Islander Children and Mental Health, (Vol. 1, pp. 193-217). Santa Barbara, CA: Praeger. (Books and Publications: Edited Book)
• Porter, Jeremy R. "Human Development and the Fertility Reversal: A Spatially-Centered Sub-national Examination in the US". Spatial Demography . 5(1): 43-72. (Books and Publications: Peer Reviewed Article) 2017
• Porter, Jeremy R., Joel Capellan and Frank M. Howell. "Re-Operationalizing 'Open-Country': Introducing a Place-Level Geography for the Study of Rural Crime" International Journal of Applied Geo-Spatial Research . 8(2): 20-32. (Books and Publications: Peer Reviewed Article) 2017
• Porter, Jeremy R. and Jenifer Bratter. "Investigating Race, Class, and Context through Hitorical Evidence: Segregation and the Ecology of Aspirations of Black College Students in the 1960s South." Sociological Spectrum. 35(3):286-308. (Books and Publications: Peer Reviewed Article) 2015
• Chintakrindi, Sriram. and Jeremy R. Porter. "Assisted Suicide and the Death Penalty: Examining Attitudes Towards State Sanctioned Death". Criminology and Social Integration . (2) 24, 1-23. (Books and Publications: Peer Reviewed Article) 2016

• Gertrud Lenzer, Child Policy Forum of New York: Implementation and Monitoring of the Optional Protocol to the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child on the Sale of Children, Child Prostitution, and Child Pornography, Proceedings of the Third Child Policy Forum of New York, 2009 (pdf)
• Gertrud Lenzer, Children and the Law in New York: A Policy Symposium (proceedings); New York: Children's Studies Center, 2004 (pdf)
• Gertrud Lenzer, "Children's Studies and the Human Rights of Children: Toward a Unified Approach. Children as Equals: Exploring the Rights of the Child. Eds. Kathleen Alaimo and Brian Klug. Lanham, Md.: University Press of America, 2002 (pdf)

Reports

• "Do Best Practice Interviews with Child Abuse Victims Influence Case Outcomes?" National Criminal Justice Reference Service (pdf)

The Children's Studies Center for Research, Policy and Public Service Publications

• The History of the Children's Studies Program and Center at Brooklyn College of The City University of New York:  Founding of the Interdisciplinary Field of Children's Studies in the United States (pdf)
• History of Children's Studies -- 25th Anniversary Timeline (pdf)
• Social Justice for Children: To End Child Abuse and Violence Against Children, Children's Studies Center for Research, Policy and Public Service, Nov. 4, 2011 (pdf)
• Fourth Child Policy Forum of New York: Youth Forum (pdf)
• Fourth Child Policy Forum of New York (pdf)
• Third Child Policy Forum of New York (pdf)
• New Horizons — August 2010 (pdf)
• New Horizons — August 2009 (pdf)
• New Horizons — June 2008 (pdf)
• Policy Symposium: Children and the Law in New York (pdf)

Brooklyn College Magazine

• Children's Studies Program Becomes a Major (pdf)
• Children and the Law (pdf)
• Mel Pipe: In the Service of Children (pdf)
• U.S. State Department Report Highlights "Essential" Role of Brooklyn College Children's Studies Center (pdf)