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Class, Race, Gender & Crime:
Social Realities of Justice in America, 4nd ed
by Gregg
Barak, Paul Leighton & Allison Cotton (Rowman & Littlefield 2015 [available 7/2014])
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Class, Race, Gender, and Crime: The Social
Realities of Justice in America is a
systematic examination of the impact of class, race and gender on
criminological theory and the administration of criminal justice. These
topics represent the main sites of inequality, power, and privilege in the
U.S., which define society's understanding, consciously and unconsciously,
of who is a criminal and how society should deal with them.
The text is ordered around short, lucid introductions to the key concepts
of class, race/ethnicity, gender and their intersections. Subsequent
chapters use these concepts as subheadings to structure topics related to
criminology, victimization and each phase of the administration of
criminal justice: practices of law making, law enforcement, adjudication,
sentencing, and punishment. Significantly, the authors provide a history
to contextualize contemporary data and policy debates, which they observe
through the lens of social justice. The book concludes with a review of
the evolution of justice in America, along with an evaluation of
alternative crime reduction policies, intended to further realize the
goals and aspirations of "liberty, justice, and equality for
all."
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Gregg
Barak, Class, Race, and Gender in Criminology and Criminal Justice:
Ways of Seeing Difference (Symposium Speech delivered at the Second Annual Conference on RACE, GENDER and CLASS Project in New Orleans on October 20,
2000)
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chapters of our book open with a short narrative. The links in this box go
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3 Class: Class and Economic privilege
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4 Race: Race and White Privilege
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5 Gender: Gender and Male Privilege
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