Social Service Review
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Since 1927, publishing thought-provoking, original research on pressing social issues and social welfare policies, organizations, and practices.
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The 2026 Frank R. Breul Memorial Prize has been awarded to Kess Ballentine and colleagues for their article “What Happens When the Fight for $15 and a Union Is Won? Understanding Workers’ Perceptions and Implications for Organizing."
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What Happens When the Fight for $15 and a Union Is Won? Understanding Workers’ Perceptions and Implications for Organizing | Social Service Review
Abstract The Fight for $15 launched a resurgence of the US labor movement. Little research has examined the impact of unions established through this movement, particularly in the health-care industry...
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November 17, 2025 at 5:03 PM
The 2026 Frank R. Breul Memorial Prize has been awarded to Kess Ballentine and colleagues for their article “What Happens When the Fight for $15 and a Union Is Won? Understanding Workers’ Perceptions and Implications for Organizing."
Read for free now!
www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/full/10....
Read for free now!
www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/full/10....
How do housing voucher recipients navigate stigma during their housing search?
Check out Rachel Engel and colleagues' exploration of recipient experiences and potential policy feedback in our September issue!
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Check out Rachel Engel and colleagues' exploration of recipient experiences and potential policy feedback in our September issue!
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“I Don’t Fit the Stereotypes”: Housing Choice Voucher Recipients and the Navigation of a Voucher Identity | Social Service Review: Vol 99, No 3
Abstract This article examines how Housing Choice Voucher Program participants encounter and negotiate stigma during the housing search. The stigmatization of government subsidies is well documented, ...
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October 10, 2025 at 6:06 PM
How do housing voucher recipients navigate stigma during their housing search?
Check out Rachel Engel and colleagues' exploration of recipient experiences and potential policy feedback in our September issue!
www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/...
Check out Rachel Engel and colleagues' exploration of recipient experiences and potential policy feedback in our September issue!
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📣 Our September issue is live!
This issue’s free article, by Melanie Nadon, explores how place shapes street-level decision-making in child welfare investigations and ultimately affects outcomes for families.
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This issue’s free article, by Melanie Nadon, explores how place shapes street-level decision-making in child welfare investigations and ultimately affects outcomes for families.
@mnadon.bsky.social
🔗 Read it here!
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Street-Level Disparities: How Place Shapes the Process of Frontline Child Welfare Investigations | Social Service Review: Vol 99, No 3
Abstract Street-level bureaucrats (SLBs) define policy implementation and outcomes through their direct interactions with clients and their discretionary decision-making. SLB choices, though generally...
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September 12, 2025 at 3:46 PM
📣 Our September issue is live!
This issue’s free article, by Melanie Nadon, explores how place shapes street-level decision-making in child welfare investigations and ultimately affects outcomes for families.
@mnadon.bsky.social
🔗 Read it here!
www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/...
This issue’s free article, by Melanie Nadon, explores how place shapes street-level decision-making in child welfare investigations and ultimately affects outcomes for families.
@mnadon.bsky.social
🔗 Read it here!
www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/...
How does credit-related economic precarity impact families?
New research by Trisha Chanda and colleagues links "debt strain" to higher risk of CPS involvement - especially for child neglect.
Read now in our September issue 👇
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New research by Trisha Chanda and colleagues links "debt strain" to higher risk of CPS involvement - especially for child neglect.
Read now in our September issue 👇
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Debt Strain and Child Protective Services Involvement | Social Service Review
Abstract Research has identified a likely causal relationship between economic precarity and both child maltreatment and child protective services (CPS) involvement. Yet little is known about the rela...
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September 4, 2025 at 4:24 PM
How does credit-related economic precarity impact families?
New research by Trisha Chanda and colleagues links "debt strain" to higher risk of CPS involvement - especially for child neglect.
Read now in our September issue 👇
www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/...
New research by Trisha Chanda and colleagues links "debt strain" to higher risk of CPS involvement - especially for child neglect.
Read now in our September issue 👇
www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/...
📣 Reminder: Call for Papers!
The Next 100 Years: Reflections on the Centennial of SSR
Abstracts due by September 15.
Submit via the SSR Editorial Manager page: www.editorialmanager.com/ucp-ssr/defa...
The Next 100 Years: Reflections on the Centennial of SSR
Abstracts due by September 15.
Submit via the SSR Editorial Manager page: www.editorialmanager.com/ucp-ssr/defa...
August 21, 2025 at 8:28 PM
📣 Reminder: Call for Papers!
The Next 100 Years: Reflections on the Centennial of SSR
Abstracts due by September 15.
Submit via the SSR Editorial Manager page: www.editorialmanager.com/ucp-ssr/defa...
The Next 100 Years: Reflections on the Centennial of SSR
Abstracts due by September 15.
Submit via the SSR Editorial Manager page: www.editorialmanager.com/ucp-ssr/defa...
Read in our September issue!
Timothy Black and colleagues explore how "legal temporal obligations" act as hidden barriers to reentry and employment for those completing community supervision, extending the carceral experience beyond prison walls.
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Timothy Black and colleagues explore how "legal temporal obligations" act as hidden barriers to reentry and employment for those completing community supervision, extending the carceral experience beyond prison walls.
www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/...
Wasted Time: Legal Temporal Obligations Among Reentering Citizens | Social Service Review
Abstract The expression “doing time” is no longer limited to the forced idleness and penitence of prison. The reentry process now places considerable demands on the time of reentering citizens, who mu...
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August 21, 2025 at 1:45 PM
Read in our September issue!
Timothy Black and colleagues explore how "legal temporal obligations" act as hidden barriers to reentry and employment for those completing community supervision, extending the carceral experience beyond prison walls.
www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/...
Timothy Black and colleagues explore how "legal temporal obligations" act as hidden barriers to reentry and employment for those completing community supervision, extending the carceral experience beyond prison walls.
www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/...
Check out our June issue! A longitudinal study shows Child Development Accounts (CDAs) can raise parents’ educational expectations and increase college preparation. CDAs may be a powerful tool for reducing education gaps.
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The Long-Term Impacts of Child Development Accounts on Parental Educational Expectations and College Preparation | Social Service Review: Vol 99, No 2
Abstract This article reports the long-term effects of child development accounts (CDAs), a policy fostering asset building for all children, on two educational outcomes: parents’ educational expectat...
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August 8, 2025 at 3:29 PM
Check out our June issue! A longitudinal study shows Child Development Accounts (CDAs) can raise parents’ educational expectations and increase college preparation. CDAs may be a powerful tool for reducing education gaps.
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Check out this Imprint feature of Katherine Gibson's important research, including a mention of her SSR article from 2023!
For two years, scholar Katie Gibson went inside settings where decisions to medicate foster youth are made.
Researching Foster Care’s Medication Nerve Center
For two years, scholar Katie Gibson went inside settings where decisions to medicate foster youth are made.
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July 31, 2025 at 2:27 PM
Check out this Imprint feature of Katherine Gibson's important research, including a mention of her SSR article from 2023!
Call for papers!
*The Next 100 Years: Reflections on the Centennial of SSR*
To celebrate 100 years of SSR in 2026, the journal will publish a collection of thought-provoking papers exploring the history, current state, and future of social work and social welfare.
Abstracts due September 15!
*The Next 100 Years: Reflections on the Centennial of SSR*
To celebrate 100 years of SSR in 2026, the journal will publish a collection of thought-provoking papers exploring the history, current state, and future of social work and social welfare.
Abstracts due September 15!
July 25, 2025 at 5:02 PM
Call for papers!
*The Next 100 Years: Reflections on the Centennial of SSR*
To celebrate 100 years of SSR in 2026, the journal will publish a collection of thought-provoking papers exploring the history, current state, and future of social work and social welfare.
Abstracts due September 15!
*The Next 100 Years: Reflections on the Centennial of SSR*
To celebrate 100 years of SSR in 2026, the journal will publish a collection of thought-provoking papers exploring the history, current state, and future of social work and social welfare.
Abstracts due September 15!
U.S. children increasingly live in households with grandparents, yet most safety net programs still assume a “traditional” family structure. In our June issue, Lawrence M. Berger and colleagues examine SSA use in multigenerational households.
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Estimating the Antipoverty Effects of Social Security Programs for Children in Multigenerational Families | Social Service Review: Vol 99, No 2
Abstract A growing share of children reside in households that include at least one grandparent. Safety net programs have typically been designed for a “traditional” household structure and may not ac...
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July 23, 2025 at 5:21 PM
U.S. children increasingly live in households with grandparents, yet most safety net programs still assume a “traditional” family structure. In our June issue, Lawrence M. Berger and colleagues examine SSA use in multigenerational households.
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As U.S. schools grapple with how to support immigrant students, Benjamin Roth and Leticia Villarreal Sosa examine how school social workers address the needs of undocumented students through the concept of “reciprocal legibility.”
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Reciprocal Legibility: How School Social Workers Broker Equity for Legally Precarious Immigrant Students | Social Service Review: Vol 99, No 2
Abstract In this article, we explore how school social workers recognize and respond to the precarity of immigrant students in their schools, with particular attention to how they broker resources to ...
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July 11, 2025 at 3:24 PM
As U.S. schools grapple with how to support immigrant students, Benjamin Roth and Leticia Villarreal Sosa examine how school social workers address the needs of undocumented students through the concept of “reciprocal legibility.”
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Check out the free-to-read article in our June issue! Buyi Wang and colleagues examine the benefits and costs of paid parental leave in the U.S.
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The Benefits and Costs of Paid Parental Leave in the United States | Social Service Review
Abstract To inform US policy debates about the introduction of a national paid leave program, we conduct a benefit-cost analysis of its introduction. We identify high-quality, quasi-experimental studi...
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June 26, 2025 at 3:05 PM
Check out the free-to-read article in our June issue! Buyi Wang and colleagues examine the benefits and costs of paid parental leave in the U.S.
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📖 Read now!
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As the Trump administration challenges birthright citizenship in the Supreme Court and enforces selective refugee admissions, revisit Odessa Gonzalez Benson’s 2023 article on human rights and neoliberal citizenship in U.S. refugee policy discourse.
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The Limits of Human Rights Discourse within Sovereign Territory: Examining US Refugee Policy Formation | Social Service Review: Vol 97, No 2
Abstract Human rights denote universality, moral normativity, and the international community. Citizenship rights, meanwhile, denote particularity, collective identity, and sovereign territory. Yet so...
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May 15, 2025 at 3:18 PM
As the Trump administration challenges birthright citizenship in the Supreme Court and enforces selective refugee admissions, revisit Odessa Gonzalez Benson’s 2023 article on human rights and neoliberal citizenship in U.S. refugee policy discourse.
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New article ahead of print!
Read Matthew Clair and colleagues' latest article -- Spatial Burdens of State Institutions: The Case of Criminal Courthouses
How does space shape access to state institutions and deepen inequality?
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Read Matthew Clair and colleagues' latest article -- Spatial Burdens of State Institutions: The Case of Criminal Courthouses
How does space shape access to state institutions and deepen inequality?
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May 1, 2025 at 9:53 PM
New article ahead of print!
Read Matthew Clair and colleagues' latest article -- Spatial Burdens of State Institutions: The Case of Criminal Courthouses
How does space shape access to state institutions and deepen inequality?
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Read Matthew Clair and colleagues' latest article -- Spatial Burdens of State Institutions: The Case of Criminal Courthouses
How does space shape access to state institutions and deepen inequality?
www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/...
The 2025 Frank R. Breul Memorial Prize was awarded to Kristen Brock-Petroshius for her article “Race Talk to Change Carceral Attitudes: A Field Experiment on Deep Canvass Organizing."
Read it for free in our December 2024 issue!
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Read it for free in our December 2024 issue!
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April 18, 2025 at 11:00 PM
The 2025 Frank R. Breul Memorial Prize was awarded to Kristen Brock-Petroshius for her article “Race Talk to Change Carceral Attitudes: A Field Experiment on Deep Canvass Organizing."
Read it for free in our December 2024 issue!
www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/...
Read it for free in our December 2024 issue!
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Don’t miss out! Sign up for our Writing Great Book Reviews webinar next Tuesday at 1pm CDT.
Join former SSR editorial assistant, Matthew Borus, PhD, as he shares expert tips on crafting standout book reviews for journals.
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Join former SSR editorial assistant, Matthew Borus, PhD, as he shares expert tips on crafting standout book reviews for journals.
REGISTER NOW!
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April 1, 2025 at 2:23 PM
Don’t miss out! Sign up for our Writing Great Book Reviews webinar next Tuesday at 1pm CDT.
Join former SSR editorial assistant, Matthew Borus, PhD, as he shares expert tips on crafting standout book reviews for journals.
REGISTER NOW!
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Join former SSR editorial assistant, Matthew Borus, PhD, as he shares expert tips on crafting standout book reviews for journals.
REGISTER NOW!
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Check out Jill Hoiting and colleagues' article in our latest issue! They explore how Pre-K expansions have shaped child care supply in Wisconsin and discuss implications for early care and education policy.
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Examining the Role of Public Pre-K Expansions in the Changing Supply of Child Care in Wisconsin | Social Service Review: Vol 99, No 1
Abstract Across the United States, the supply of child care is changing, and for many states, this includes a decline in family child care. Family child care and center-based care offer different adva...
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March 28, 2025 at 3:11 PM
Check out Jill Hoiting and colleagues' article in our latest issue! They explore how Pre-K expansions have shaped child care supply in Wisconsin and discuss implications for early care and education policy.
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This is going to be a great event, particularly for early career folks. Everyone is welcome!
Join us April 8 at 1pm CT for our Writing Great Book Reviews workshop!
Have you ever been invited to review a book for a journal, but felt unsure of how to proceed? This webinar will offer tips on how to craft effective, insightful reviews.
Register here:
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Have you ever been invited to review a book for a journal, but felt unsure of how to proceed? This webinar will offer tips on how to craft effective, insightful reviews.
Register here:
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Welcome! You are invited to join a webinar: Writing Great Book Reviews. After registering, you will receive a confirmation email about joining the webinar.
Have you ever been invited to review a new book for an academic journal, but felt unsure of how to proceed? Book reviews are an important service to the academic world, but few of us were ever taught...
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March 26, 2025 at 3:02 PM
This is going to be a great event, particularly for early career folks. Everyone is welcome!
Join us April 8 at 1pm CT for our Writing Great Book Reviews workshop!
Have you ever been invited to review a book for a journal, but felt unsure of how to proceed? This webinar will offer tips on how to craft effective, insightful reviews.
Register here:
uchicagogroup.zoom.us/webinar/regi...
Have you ever been invited to review a book for a journal, but felt unsure of how to proceed? This webinar will offer tips on how to craft effective, insightful reviews.
Register here:
uchicagogroup.zoom.us/webinar/regi...
Welcome! You are invited to join a webinar: Writing Great Book Reviews. After registering, you will receive a confirmation email about joining the webinar.
Have you ever been invited to review a new book for an academic journal, but felt unsure of how to proceed? Book reviews are an important service to the academic world, but few of us were ever taught...
uchicagogroup.zoom.us
March 18, 2025 at 2:27 PM
Join us April 8 at 1pm CT for our Writing Great Book Reviews workshop!
Have you ever been invited to review a book for a journal, but felt unsure of how to proceed? This webinar will offer tips on how to craft effective, insightful reviews.
Register here:
uchicagogroup.zoom.us/webinar/regi...
Have you ever been invited to review a book for a journal, but felt unsure of how to proceed? This webinar will offer tips on how to craft effective, insightful reviews.
Register here:
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In our latest March 2025 issue, Kitty Stewart and colleagues examine the effects of the UK's "two-child limit" policy on labor market engagement and family well-being.
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Does Reducing Child Benefits Mean Parents Work More? A Mixed-Methods Study of the Labor Market Effects of the United Kingdom’s “Two-Child Limit” | Social Service Review: Vol 99, No 1
Abstract Child benefits can play an important role in supporting families during a life stage of increased household needs. However, they may also have negative effects on parental work incentives, po...
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March 14, 2025 at 4:28 PM
In our latest March 2025 issue, Kitty Stewart and colleagues examine the effects of the UK's "two-child limit" policy on labor market engagement and family well-being.
📖 Read for free now!
www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/...
📖 Read for free now!
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🚨 New Issue Alert 🚨
The March 2025 issue is live and available online now!
Check out the latest articles covering:
Child Benefits in the UK
Antidrug Social Work in China
Pre-K Expansion in Wisconsin
And more!
Explore the full issue today: www.journals.uchicago.edu/toc/ssr/curr...
The March 2025 issue is live and available online now!
Check out the latest articles covering:
Child Benefits in the UK
Antidrug Social Work in China
Pre-K Expansion in Wisconsin
And more!
Explore the full issue today: www.journals.uchicago.edu/toc/ssr/curr...
Social Service Review | Vol 99, No 1
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March 7, 2025 at 5:00 PM
🚨 New Issue Alert 🚨
The March 2025 issue is live and available online now!
Check out the latest articles covering:
Child Benefits in the UK
Antidrug Social Work in China
Pre-K Expansion in Wisconsin
And more!
Explore the full issue today: www.journals.uchicago.edu/toc/ssr/curr...
The March 2025 issue is live and available online now!
Check out the latest articles covering:
Child Benefits in the UK
Antidrug Social Work in China
Pre-K Expansion in Wisconsin
And more!
Explore the full issue today: www.journals.uchicago.edu/toc/ssr/curr...
We’re excited to share a recent op-ed from Bruce Fuller, building on findings from an article in our current issue on who benefited from the expanded child tax credit.
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Trump’s tax giveaway delivers little for the middle class | GUEST COMMENTARY
President Donald Trump’s tax plan serves America’s gilded class more than the middle class, writes Bruce Fuller.
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February 7, 2025 at 6:33 PM
We’re excited to share a recent op-ed from Bruce Fuller, building on findings from an article in our current issue on who benefited from the expanded child tax credit.
Check it out now!
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Check it out now!
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We are thrilled to announce the winner of the 2025 Bruel Prize for the best paper published in SSR: Kristen Brock-Petroshius (@4heartsnminds.bsky.social) for her article “Race Talk to Change Carceral Attitudes: A Field Experiment on Deep Canvass Organizing.” www.journals.uchicago.edu/journals/ssr...
Social Service Review: Press release
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January 15, 2025 at 3:32 PM
We are thrilled to announce the winner of the 2025 Bruel Prize for the best paper published in SSR: Kristen Brock-Petroshius (@4heartsnminds.bsky.social) for her article “Race Talk to Change Carceral Attitudes: A Field Experiment on Deep Canvass Organizing.” www.journals.uchicago.edu/journals/ssr...
🚨Introducing SSR Special Collections!
What is a special collection? It is a curated selection of articles, chosen by a guest editor(s), that showcase work published in SSR on a specific topic. All articles chosen are free to read for 6 months! www.journals.uchicago.edu/journals/ssr...
What is a special collection? It is a curated selection of articles, chosen by a guest editor(s), that showcase work published in SSR on a specific topic. All articles chosen are free to read for 6 months! www.journals.uchicago.edu/journals/ssr...
Social Service Review: Special collections
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December 19, 2024 at 12:21 AM
🚨Introducing SSR Special Collections!
What is a special collection? It is a curated selection of articles, chosen by a guest editor(s), that showcase work published in SSR on a specific topic. All articles chosen are free to read for 6 months! www.journals.uchicago.edu/journals/ssr...
What is a special collection? It is a curated selection of articles, chosen by a guest editor(s), that showcase work published in SSR on a specific topic. All articles chosen are free to read for 6 months! www.journals.uchicago.edu/journals/ssr...
Check out this great new paper, free to read in our December issue! www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/...
December 10, 2024 at 10:17 PM
Check out this great new paper, free to read in our December issue! www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/...