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Investigating Difference: Human and Cultural Relations in Criminal Justice, 3rd edition

Published by Pearson (January 12, 2017) © 2018

  • Justine Fitzgerald Miller Branford Hall Career Institute
  • Sarah Prior
  • Lynn Jones

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  • Covers the full range of differences: age, physical disabilities, mental disabilities, immigrants, religious minorities, socio-economic class, sexual preference
    • UPDATED! Moves beyond a prioritization of race to emphasize the multitude of social identity categories that matter in the justice system through reorganized chapters and book
  • Provides a balanced perspective through contributions from a diverse group of authors: leading educators, researchers, and criminal justice professionals
  • UPDATED! Ensures readers are current on topics in the news today through the inclusion of new content, including:
    • NEW! Chapters on intersectionality, specialty courts, and whiteness;
    • NEW! Newly authored and conceptualized chapters on gender, sexual orientation and gender identity, victimization, African Americans, Asian Americans, immigration, disability, and religion;
    • NEW! Trump’s negative characterization of difference in the campaign in regard to immigrants, members of the LGBTQ community, women, people with a disability, and members of racial minority communities (highlighted in several chapters); and
    • UPDATED! Statistics and policy information on current crime and victimization statistical patterns, as well as workforce patterns.
  • Develops a rich understanding of the meaning of difference, and how differences impact each entity within the criminal justice system by discussing offenders, victims, and service providers
    • Looks at how difference is constructed, manifested, and perpetuated through systems of justice
    • NEW! Prioritizes the theme of intersectionality and overlapping identities in the context of criminal justice and social justice
  • Provides a distinctive framework for understanding tensions, paradoxes, and problems inherent in efforts to achieve justice in societies around the world

    • NEW! Discusses globalization and its impact on victims, offenders, and practitioners in the justice system
    • Shows how inequality, globalization, culture, international/intercultural relations, politics, religion, social movements, and changes affect conceptions and experiences of justice, laws, and systems of adjudication and sanction
  • Provokes readers to bring a new perspective to familiar ideas, practices, and patterns in the administration of justice
  • Reinforces learning and ensures comprehension of important topics
    • Each chapter begins with learning objectives and ends each with discussion questions

    • Special topics are highlighted within chapters through short text boxes that include case studies and a few personal experiences written by practitioners doing justice work in the community

  • UPDATED! Moves beyond a prioritization of race to emphasize the multitude of social identity categories that matter in the justice system through reorganized chapters and book
  • UPDATED! Ensures readers are current on topics in the news today through the inclusion of new content, including:
    • New chapters on intersectionality, specialty courts, and whiteness;
    • Newly authored and conceptualized chapters on gender, sexual orientation and gender identity, victimization, African Americans, Asian Americans, immigration, disability, and religion;
    • Trump’s negative characterization of difference in the campaign in regard to immigrants, members of the LGBTQ community, women, people with a disability, and members of racial minority communities (highlighted in several chapters); and
    • UPDATED! Statistics and policy information on current crime and victimization statistical patterns, as well as workforce patterns.
  • Prioritizes the theme of intersectionality and overlapping identities in the context of criminal justice and social justice
  • Discusses globalization and its impact on victims, offenders, and practitioners in the justice system
  • Shows how inequality, globalization, culture, international/intercultural relations, politics, religion, social movements, and changes affect conceptions and experiences of justice, laws, and systems of adjudication and sanction
  • Provokes readers to bring a new perspective to familiar ideas, practices, and patterns in the administration of justice
1. Introduction: Investigating Difference—Sarah Prior and Lynn Jones

PART ONE: FRAMING DIFFERENCE

2. Conceptualizing Difference—Nancy A. Wonders

3. Conceptualizing Difference Through An Intersectional Lens—Sarah Prior and Lynn Jones

4. Talking Through Our Differences: Intercultural and Interpersonal Communication—Marianne Nielsen and Rebecca Maniglia

5. Making Difference Work Within The Justice System: Specialty Courts—Christine Arazan

PART TWO: CATEGORIES OF DIFFERENCE: GENDER AND SEXUALITY

6. Gender, Crime, and Justice—Nancy A. Wonders

7. Sexual Orientation, Gender Identity, and Justice— Lynn Jones and Sarah Prior

8. Victimization In The Context Of Difference—Brooke De Heer and Lynn Jones

PART THREE: CATEGORIES OF DIFFERENCE: CLASS AND RACE

9. Social Class, Crime, and Justice—Raymond J. Michalowski

10. Whiteness and the Construction of Crime—Rebecca Maniglia

11. Stolen Lands, Stolen Lives, Revisited: Native Americans and Criminal Justice—Marianne O. Nielsen and Linda Robyn

12. The Continuing Significance Of Race: African Americans and The Criminal Justice System— Stephani Williams

13. Aliens Within: Asian Americans and U.S. Legal and Criminal Justice System—An Tuan Nguyen

PART FOUR: CATEGORIES OF DIFFERENCE: IMMIGRATION AND RACE

14. Coming To America: Immigration, Crime, and The Criminal Justice System—Michael Costelloe

15. Unwelcome Citizens: Latinos and The Criminal Justice System—Alexander Alvarez

16. Undocumented Immigration As Moral Panic: Casting Difference As Threat—Michael Costelloe

PART FIVE: CATEGORIES OF DIFFERENCE: FORGOTTEN DIFFERENCE

17. Youth, Crime, and Justice: Challenges and Contradictions—Rebecca Maniglia

18. Many Faces Of Aging: Victimization, Crime, and The Incarcerated Elderly—Carole Mandino and Sherry Bell

19. Imprisoning Disability: Difference, Punishment, and The Criminal Justice System—Katherine Mahosky, Meghan G. Mcdowell, and Karen Applequist

20. Religion, Politics, and Criminal Justice—Mohamed Mosaad Abdelaziz Mohamed

PART SIX: REFRAMING DIFFERENCE

21. Reconstructing Difference For Criminal Justice and Social Justice—Lynn Jones and Sarah PrIor


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