Class, Race, Gender, and Crime : The Social Realities of Justice in America
ISBN: 9780742599703 | 0742599701
Edition: 3rdFormat: Paperback
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Pub Inc
Pub. Date: 9/30/2010
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A decade after its first publication, Class, Race, Gender, and Crime remains the only non-edited book to systematically address the impact of class, race, and gender on criminological theory and all phases of the administration of criminal justice, including its workers. These topics represent the main sites of inequality, power and privilege in the U.S., which consciously or unconsciously shape people's understandings of who is a criminal and how society should deal with them. The third edition has been thoroughly updated and revised. Maintain... MORE
| List of Figures and Tables | p. vii |
| Preface | p. xi |
| Introduction | p. xvii |
| Criminology and the Study of Class, Race, Gender, and Crime | p. 3 |
| Criminal Justice Work and the Crime Control Enterprise | p. 29 |
| Understanding Class and Economic Privilege | p. 69 |
| Understanding Race and White Privilege | p. 91 |
| Understanding Gen... MORE | p. 113 |
| Understanding Privilege and the Intersections of Class, Race, and Gender | p. 133 |
| Victimology and Patterns of Victimization | p. 149 |
| Lawmaking and the Administration of Criminal Law | p. 191 |
| Law Enforcement and Criminal Prosecution | p. 221 |
| Punishment, Sentencing, and Imprisonment | p. 253 |
| Conclusion | p. 285 |
| References | p. 323 |
| Name Index | p. 359 |
| Subject Index | p. 363 |
| About the Authors | p. 371 |
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Gregg Barak is professor of criminology and criminal justice at Eastern Michigan University. He is the author of a number of books, including Criminology: In Integrated Approach, and is the editor of the series Issues in Crime and Justice. Paul Leighton is professor of criminology and criminal justice at Eastern Michigan University. He is the coauthor of Punishment for Sale: Private Prisons, Big Business, and the Incarceration Bringe, as well as several other books. Jeanne Flavin is associate professor of sociology at Fordham University. She is the author of Our Bodies, Our Crimes: The Policing of Women's Reproduction in America.
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