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Human population growth is a serious biospheric problem, yet is largely overlooked. This book fills this gap with a concise review of world population growth, including the impact of over-population on the biosphere and government interventions addressing the frequency of childbearing and immigration.

Environmentalists devote little attention at the moment to the size and growth of the human population. To counter this neglect, the monograph (i) includes original graphs showing population size and growth since 1920 in the world as a whole and the United States; (ii) assembles evidence tying the increasing number of people to ecosystem deterioration and its societal consequences; and (iii) analyzes sample-survey data to ascertain whether the current disregard of population pressures by U.S. environmentalists reflects the thinking of Americans generally. However, even if a nation took steps primarily intended to lower childbearing and immigration, the findings of social science research indicate that the steps would not have a substantial, lasting impact. The discussion, which suggests an indirect way by which government may reduce fertility, underlines for environmental scholars the importance of studying their subject in a multidisciplinary, collaborative setting

Intro -- Dedication -- Preface -- Contents -- List of Figures -- List of Tables -- Chapter 1: Statistical Aspects of Macrosociological Research on Law -- 1.1 Probability, Odds, and the Odds Ratio -- 1.2 Intercept -- 1.3 Statistical Significance -- 1.4 Number of Cases -- 1.5 Excessive Collinearity, Influential Outliers, and Interaction -- 1.6 Model Fit and Parsimony -- 1.7 Macrosociological Theory and Research on Law -- Appendix: Event History Analysis -- Chapter 2: Jurymen, Jurywomen, and Law -- 2.1 Law in the United States and the Sex Attribute -- 2.1.1 Women, State Law, and Eligibility for Jury Service -- 2.1.2 From Hoyt to Taylor -- 2.2 Societal Agents in State Law on Women's Eligibility for Jury Service -- 2.2.1 Dependent Variable -- 2.2.2 Independent Variables and Their Empirical Indicators -- 2.2.2.1 Independent Variables from the Abortion Study -- 2.2.2.2 Sex Ratio -- 2.2.2.3 Interaction -- 2.2.3 Data Analysis -- 2.2.4 Summary of Findings -- 2.3 Points to Ponder -- Appendix: State Law on Juror Qualifications, Exemptions, and Excusals When the U.S. Supreme Court Decided Hoyt V. Florida (November 20, 1961) -- Chapter 3: "Thou Shall Not Commit Adultery": The Decriminalization of a Marriage-Endorsing Directive -- 3.1 The Macrosociology of Adultery -- 3.1.1 Adultery, Divorce, and Their Toll on Society -- 3.1.2 Prevalence of Adultery in the United States -- 3.2 A Study of Societal Determinants of the Decriminalization of Adultery -- 3.2.1 Design of the Study -- 3.2.1.1 Dependent Variable -- 3.2.1.2 Independent Variables -- 3.2.2 Data Analysis -- 3.2.3 Model III -- 3.3 Discussion -- Appendix139: Statutes and Legislation Criminalizing Adultery: State Law in 1955 and in 2015 -- Chapter 4: Penal Sanctions and Their Societal Setting: When Law Embraces Death -- 4.1 The Eighth Amendment and the Death Penalty.

""In the finest sociological tradition, The Place of Law deftly challenges the popular assumption that the concepts and doctrines of law in regulating certain human activities are determined by atomistic individuals. Marshalling a wide array of empirical evidence, Larry D. Barnett brilliantly makes the case for context preceding content. Barnett, who is a lawyer and a sociologist, offers a framework for the study of law that convincingly demonstrates that only when we consider law's social context can we then explain and predict its content. The Place of Law should be required reading in all l

SummaryThis paper reports the results of a sample survey of ZPG members undertaken in April 1971 to ascertain if any changes had occurred in membership attributes since the first survey in September 1970 and to investigate additional characteristics. Age, education, religion and student/ non-student status are considered in relation to length of membership of ZPG. Income, political activities, intended family size and opinions about ideal population size and population control are also examined, including attitudes towards vasectomy and abortion.It is concluded that, among members of voluntary organizations, demographic factors such as age, education, religion and sex do not possess a causal relationship with social behaviour.

In the fall of 1965 and again in the fall of 1967, The Population Council sponsored nationwide public opinion polls in which questions were asked regarding whether the world and US population growth rates constituted serious problems. Both polls found the proportion of respondents viewing the world growth rate as serious (62% in 1965, 69% in 1967) to be higher than the proportion viewing the US rate as serious (54% in 1965 and 1967) (Kantner, 1968). Thus, attitudes towards world population growth and US population growth appear to be potentially independent of and not necessarily congruent with one another, but to date no examination has been made of their relationship. It is the purpose of the present study: (1) to determine the incidence of each possible combination of views towards the world and US population growth rates, and (2) to determine how individuals with a particular attitude towards one growth rate
distribute themselves in terms of attitudes towards the other rate.

A prevalent feature of American society is the strong desire to live in areas of low population density and close to nature, a phenomenon which can perhaps be most appropriately termed a 'rural ideal'.* It is paradoxical that this phenomenon has been little studied and totally disregarded in quantitative research, for it apparently has a long-standing and central place in American history (Schmitt, 1969; White & White, 1962). The ideal, which some would argue conforms to a basic biological need of the human species (e.g. Iltis, Loucks & Andrews, 1970), may help to explain and predict such social phenomena as migration to the suburbs (Schmitt, 1969; Strauss, 1961), the growth and prevalence of recreational activities which bring the individual into closer contact with nature and/or into lesser contact with other people (e.g. camping, fishing, hunting, visits to national parks) (Schmitt, 1969), and rising rates of deviant behaviours such as neuroses and violence with increasing population density (Ehrlich & Ehrlich, 1970).