Imagining Justice

John P. Crank is a Professor in School of Criminology and Criminal Justice at the University of Nebraska, Omaha. He received his M.A. in Sociology from the University of Arizona, his M.P.A. from the University of Illinois, and his Ph.D. in Sociology from the University of Colorado. He has published in the area of police effectiveness, and in the areas of organizational culture and structure, focusing on the police and on parole and probation. He has also published on criminal justice theory and counter-terrorism and was the recipient of the Academy of Criminal Justice Science's Outstanding Book Award in 2004 for his book Imagining Justice (Anderson Publishing).

1. The Commitment to Justice 2. Fields of Inquiry: The Intellectual Environment of Justice Studies 3. Justice Identity in Academia 4. Toward Justice Perspective: The Development of Theory in Justice Studies 5. The Methodologies of Justice 6. Race and Ethnicity: Understanding the New Order in the United States 7. Gender and the Emergence of Feminist Perspective 8. Ethics and Morality: The Power to Do Good; The Power to Bind and Divide Conclusion: Toward Justice