Abstract The Department of Sociology at The University of New Mexico has a mission to enhance the understanding of human relationships, social institutions, and social change. Their faculty researches and analyzes major sociological issues of global, national, and regional significance, with a focus on crime and justice, gender, health and medicine, race and ethnicity, and social movements. The collection of University Sociology Department Papers is primarily from the 1970s and 1980s, and it includes...