Investigating Difference Human and Cultural Relations in Criminal Justice

For courses that investigate race, class, and gender issues in Criminal Justice.

A deep exploration of justice—its meaning and administration—through consideration of difference
Investigating Difference examines the full range of individual differences across the entire criminal justice system. With a focus on positive solutions, the Third Edition moves beyond a prioritization of race to emphasize the multitude of social identity categories that matter in the justice system. Written by esteemed faculty and leading scholars in the field, this edition includes 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; a look at globalization and its impact on victims, offenders, and practitioners; and updated statistics and policy information throughout.

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