Class, Race, Gender, and Crime: The Social Realities of Justice in America

by Gregg Barak, Paul Leighton, Allison Cotton, et al.

Book Overview

A third edition of this textbook is now available. Class, Race, Gender, and Crime: The Social Realities of Justice in America is a systematic examination of the impact of class, race and gender on criminological theory and the administration of criminal justice. These topics represent the main sites of inequality, power, and privilege in the U.S., which define society's understanding, consciously or unconsciously, of who is a criminal and how society...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0742546888
• ISBN13: 9780742546882
• Release Date: September 2006
• Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
• Length: 327 Pages
• Weight: 1.20 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.1" x 9.0"

Customer Reviews

good book, old edition

Interested readers should know that a 2nd edition (2007) is available from Rowman & Littlefield # ISBN-10: 0742546888 Class, Race, Gender, and Crime: The Social Realities of Justice in America (2nd ed) The new edition is updated, reorganized and substantially rewritten. It retains some of the key aspects that make this edition good - a focus on class and race and gender; systematic coverage of how these factors play out across the criminal justice system; engaging narratives to open each chapter. Note that there is a 2007 edition published by Oxford U Press, but that is a re-issue of this edition. Roxbury, the publisher of this edition, was bought out by Oxford, which has reissed the 2001 edition with a newer date.