Agenda for Social Justice 3

Agenda for Social Justice 3

Solutions for 2024
Buch | Softcover
184 Seiten
2024
Policy Press (Verlag)
978-1-4473-7139-7 (ISBN)
18,65 inkl. MwSt
The Agenda for Social Justice 3 provides accessible insights into some of the most pressing social problems in the United States and proposes public policy responses to those problems. Chapters include discussion of social problems related to criminal justice, the economy, food insecurity, education, healthcare, housing and immigration.
The Agenda for Social Justice 3: Solutions for 2024 provides accessible insights into some of the most pressing social problems and proposes public policy responses to those problems.


Written by a highly respected team of authors brought together by the Society for the Study of Social Problems (SSSP), the book offers recommendations for action by elected officials, policymakers and the public regarding key issues for social justice. Chapters include discussion of social problems related to criminal justice, the economy, food insecurity, education, healthcare, housing and immigration.


The book will be of interest to scholars, practitioners, advocates and students interested in public sociology, the study of social problems and the pursuit of social justice.

Kristen M. Budd is a Research Analyst at The Sentencing Project, an organisation which advocates for effective and humane responses to crime that minimize imprisonment and criminalization of youth and adults by promoting racial, ethnic, economic, and gender justice. Heather Dillaway is Associate Dean of the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences and Professor of the Department of Sociology at Wayne State University, USA David C. Lane is Associate Professor in the Department of Criminal Justice Sciences at Illinois State University. Glenn W. Muschert is Professor of Sociology in the Department of Humanities & Social Sciences at Khalifa University of Science and Technology, and Len Jessup Professor of Leadership and Organizational Change in the School of Business at Woxsen University. Manjusha Nair is Associate Professor of Sociology at George Mason University. Jason A. Smith is a Research Affiliate at the Center for Social Science Research at George Mason University.

PART I Crime, law, and policy


one From blame to criminalization: Black motherhood and intimate partner violence - Sarah Jane Brubaker


two Curbing pretextual traffic stops to reduce racial profiling - Lance Hannon, Lindsay Redditt, and Brooke Cordes


three Pay to talk: the financial barriers, consequences, and solutions to prison and jail communication- Sydney Ingel and Hayley Carlisle


four Immigration enforcement: the impact of crimmigration on mixed- immigration- status families in the US and the need for reform - Gabriela Gonzalez


five News media and the crime coverage problem - Kristen M. Budd and Nazgol Ghandnoosh


PART II Education


six Caught in the crossfire: K- 12 education and anti- CRT measures - Ashley N. Gwathney and Charity Anderson


seven Inequality in the experiential core: using pathways to understand and improve college students’ journeys - Blake R. Silver and Monique H. Harrison


PART III Food insecurity


eight Addressing food insecurity through community- informed food retailer implementation - Drew Bonner and Katie Kerstetter


nine How inflation and food deserts made a bad poverty measure worse— and what we can do about it - Teresa A. Sullivan


PART IV Health and healthcare


ten Reproductive health in crisis: access to abortion and contraception in the US - Kristen Lagasse Burke and Dana M. Johnson


eleven A bold policy agenda for improving immigrant healthcare access in the US - Tiffany D. Joseph and Meredith Van Natta


twelve Gender- affirming healthcare for transgender and gender minority youth - Ashley C. Rondini


thirteen At the nexus of reproductive and juvenile (in)justice: the (re)production of sexual and reproductive health disparities for system- impacted Black girls - Raquel E. Rose and McKenzie Berezin


fourteen Centering racial justice in the US emergency response framework - Sophie Webb


PART V Housing insecurity


fifteen Affordable housing in America: a matter of availability, access, and accountability - Jeanne Kimpel


sixteen Shelter from the storm: a framework for housing and climate justice - Tony R. Samara


PART VI Looking forward


seventeen Social problems in the age of culture wars - David C. Lane


Afterword - Elroi J. Windsor

Erscheinungsdatum
Reihe/Serie SSSP Agendas for Social Justice
Co-Autor Ashley C. Rondini, Ashley N. Gwathney, Blake R. Silver, Brooke Cordes, Charity Anderson
Zusatzinfo Not illustrated
Sprache englisch
Maße 156 x 234 mm
Themenwelt Naturwissenschaften Biologie Ökologie / Naturschutz
Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie
ISBN-10 1-4473-7139-9 / 1447371399
ISBN-13 978-1-4473-7139-7 / 9781447371397
Zustand Neuware
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