TY - BOOK TI - American Journal of Sociology SN - 0002-9602 PY - 2022///- CY - Chicago, USA PB - The University of Chicago Press KW - Sociology KW - Periodicals N1 - The American Journal of Sociology (AJS) presents pathbreaking work from all areas of sociology, with an emphasis on theory building and innovative methods; The Proliferation of Criminal Background Check Laws in the United States; David McElhattan; Constructing Environmental Compliance: Law, Science, and Endangered Species Conservation in California’s Delta; Caleb Scoville; The Paradox of Self-Help Expertise: How Unemployed Workers Become Professional Career Coaches; Patrick Sheehan; Policing and Symbolic Control: The Process of Valorization; Mai Thai; The Great Interstate Divergence: Partisan Bureaucracies in the Contemporary United States; Ben Merriman andJosh Pacewicz; Deconstructed and Constructive Logics: Explaining Inclusive Language Change in Queer Nonprofits, 1998–2016; Kristopher Velasco andPamela Paxton; Softer Policing or the Institutionalization of Protest? Decomposing Changes in Observed Protest Policing over Time; Thomas Elliott,Jennifer Earl,Thomas V. Maher, andHeidi Reynolds-Stenson ER -