Research Catalog

Title

Class, race, gender, and crime : the social realities of justice in America / Gregg Barak, Paul Leighton, and Jeanne Flavin.

Author

Barak, Gregg.

Publication

Lanham, Md. : Rowman & Littlefield, c2010.

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Additional Authors

• Leighton, Paul, 1964-
• Flavin, Jeanne, 1965-

Description

xxxvi, 372 p. : ill.; 25 cm.

Summary

Systematically addresses 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. --from publisher description

Subject

• Criminal justice, Administration of > United States
• United States > Social conditions

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. 323-357) and indexes.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

Criminology and the study of class, race, gender, and crime -- Criminal justice work and the crime control enterprise -- Understanding class and economic privilege -- Understanding race and white privilege -- Understanding gender and male privilege -- Understanding privilege and the intersections of class, race, and gender -- Victimology and patterns of victimization -- Law making and the administration of criminal law -- Law enforcement and criminal prosecution -- Punishment, sentencing, and imprisonment.

ISBN

• 9780742599697 (cloth : alk. paper)
• 0742599698 (cloth : alk. paper)
• 9780742599703 (pbk. : alk. paper)
• 0742599701 (pbk. : alk. paper)
• 9780742599710 (electronic)
• 074259971X (electronic)

LCCN

^^2010008823

OCLC

544474650

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library