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Rape by the Numbers
Producing and Contesting Scientific Knowledge about Sexual Violence
Rutgers University Press
Rape by the Numbers explores scientists’ approaches to studying rape over more than forty years in the United States and Canada. In addition to investigating how scientists come to know the scope, causes, and consequences of rape, this book delves into the politics of rape research. Scholars who study rape often face a range of social pressures and resource constraints, including some that are unique to feminized and politicized fields of inquiry. Collectively, these matters have far-reaching consequences.
Out of the Red
My Life of Gangs, Prison, and Redemption
Rutgers University Press
A pathbreaking story of how social forces and personal choices thrust a boy into gangs, prison, and the long path of redemption as a felon in an unforgiving society. Brilliantly told through a sociological lens, Bolden’s story is vulnerable, honest, and leaves readers enlightened and moved to action.
Social Justice
Theories, Issues, and Movements (Revised and Expanded Edition)
Rutgers University Press
Drawing on contemporary issues ranging from globalization and neoliberalism to the environment, this essential textbook - ideal for course use - encourages readers to question the limits of the law in its present state in order to develop fairer systems at the local, national, and global levels.
Chronicles of a Radical Criminologist
Working the Margins of Law, Power, and Justice
By Gregg Barak
Rutgers University Press
Prominent criminologist Gregg Barak's new book, Chronicles of a Radical Criminologist, while remaining scholarly in its intent, departs from the typical academic format. This book is a a first-person account that examines the linkages between one scholar's experiences as a criminologist from the late 1960s to the present and the emergence and evolution of radical criminology as a challenge to developments in mainstream criminology.
Carbon Criminals, Climate Crimes
By Ronald C. Kramer; Foreword by Rob White
Rutgers University Press
Carbon Criminals, Climate Crimes analyzes climate change from a criminological perspective. Four state-corporate crimes are examined: continued extraction of fossil fuels and rising carbon emissions; political omission related to the mitigation of emissions; socially organized denial; and climate crimes of empire. The final chapter reviews policies to achieve climate justice.
Colonialism Is Crime
By Marianne Nielsen and Linda M. Robyn
Rutgers University Press
There is powerful evidence that the colonization of Indigenous people was and is a crime, and that that crime is on-going. In this book Nielsen and Robyn present an analysis of the relationship between these colonial crimes and their continuing criminal and socially injurious consequences that exist today.
Dangerous Masculinity
Fatherhood, Race, and Security Inside America's Prisons
By Anna Curtis
Rutgers University Press
For incarcerated fathers, prison rather than work mediates access to their families. Incarcerated men negotiate expectations of gender performance and their relationships with the mothers of their children during incarceration.These negotiations around masculinity and fatherhood inside prison provide insight into gender inequity, racism, and ideological underpinnings of security practices.
Trapped in a Vice
The Consequences of Confinement for Young People
Rutgers University Press
Trapped in a Vice explores the lives of the young people in the criminal justice system, revealing the ways that they struggle to manage the expectations of that system; these stories from the ground level of the justice system demonstrate the complex exchange of policy and practice.
Addicted to Rehab
Race, Gender, and Drugs in the Era of Mass Incarceration
Rutgers University Press
Sociologist Allison McKim gives an in-depth and innovative ethnographic account of two women’s rehab programs, one located in the criminal justice system and one located in the private healthcare system—two very different ways of defining and treating addiction. Her study ultimately reveals a two-tiered system, bifurcated by race and class.
Everyday Desistance
The Transition to Adulthood Among Formerly Incarcerated Youth
Rutgers University Press
In Everyday Desistance, the authors examine the transition to adulthood among twenty-five formerly incarcerated young men and women in Los Angeles, California. They describe their day-to-day experiences, focusing on their attempts to surmount the challenges of adulthood, resist the temptations of criminal activity, and formulate their long-term goals for a secure adult future.
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