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    Research, Teaching, and Public Engagement

    A long overdue reckoningWith one critical eye on criminology's problematic past and a second hopeful eye on a better future, Anti-Racist Criminology offers a clear vision for how criminologists can transform their work while resisting the racist logics that have informed harmful policies and practices in the criminal legal system.Drawing a historical line from the eugenicist ideas of Cesare ... Read more

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  • Q Policing

    LGBTQ+ Experiences, Perspectives, and Passions

    Series series Perspectives on Crime and Justice
    Global perspectives on policing within LGBTQ+ communitiesRelationships between law enforcement and lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and queer (LGBTQ+) communities have always been varied and complex. On one hand, history is filled with incidents of police harassment: raids that sparked famous uprisings and rebellions; shoddy police investigations into the murders of LGBTQ+ community members; a ... Read more

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  • Arrested Justice

    Black Women, Violence, and America’s Prison Nation

    Illuminates the threats Black women face and the lack of substantive public policy towards gendered violenceBlack women in marginalized communities are uniquely at risk of battering, rape, sexual harassment, stalking and incest. Through the compelling stories of Black women who have been most affected by racism, persistent poverty, class inequality, limited access to support resources or ... Read more

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  • The Diversity Bargain

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    "Outstanding . . . it presents a comprehensive state of the field, and it explores the role of sociological research in guiding higher education practice." — ChoiceIn this volume, Patricia Gumport and other leading scholars examine the sociology of higher education as it has evolved since the publication of Burton Clark's foundational article in 1973. They trace diverse conceptual and empirical ... Read more

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  • Democracy in Motion

    Evaluating the Practice and Impact of Deliberative Civic Engagement

    Although the field of deliberative civic engagement is growing rapidly around the world, our knowledge and understanding of its practice and impacts remain highly fragmented. Democracy in Motion represents the first comprehensive attempt to assess the practice and impact of deliberative civic engagement. Organized in a series of chapters that address the big questions of deliberative civic ... Read more

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  • Social Capital

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    The term ‘social capital’ is a way of defining the intangible resources of community, shared values and trust upon which we draw in daily life. It has achieved considerable international currency across the social sciences through the very different work of Pierre Bourdieu in France and James Coleman and Robert Putnam in the United States, and has been widely taken up within politics and sociology ... Read more

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    This Element explores Critical Race Theory (CRT) and its potential application to the field of public administration. It proposes specific areas within the field where a CRT framework would help to uncover and rectify structural and institutional racism. This is paramount given the high priority that the field places on social equity, the third pillar of public administration. If there is a desire ... Read more

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