NCJ Number
223013
Editor(s)
Susan L. Miller
Date Published
2007
Length
266 pages
Annotation
This book brings together a wide range of established and up- and-coming scholars who address difference and diversity and where they share their perceptions and experiences, and offers guidance to students interested in working in the broad field of criminal justice, exposing them to a greater understanding of the range of career opportunities available in criminal justice and criminology.
Abstract
Despite the growing awareness that not all police officers are male and not all judges are White, it is still not standard university practice to expose students to the faces and stories of criminal justice practitioners, professionals, victims, and offenders, in terms of research articles about these people and subjects, that reveal a wider range of race, class, gender, and sexual diversity. This anthology fills this void and showcases diversity issues across a range of essays about the criminal justice field. While highlighting diversity, this book exposes students to a greater understanding of the range of opportunities that a career in criminal justice and criminology offers. The chapters feature diversity as the central issue in methods, theory, practice, and experience. To this end, the book explores a range of research topics and methodologies, and diversity in professional practice in three ways. First, the chapters assembled in Part 1 highlight why alternative ways of thinking about crime and conducting this kind of research is important and explores how different kinds and qualities of research are conducted. Second, the chapters contained in Part 2 explore the perceptions and experiences of researchers, practitioners, and advocates and how these affect their view of the profession. Third, the chapters placed in Part 3 examine diversity across topics and among respondents and kinds of approaches used to access these areas. The essays in this book sensitize students to these issues and provide student career guidance. References