NCJ Number
237552
Editor(s)
James E. Hendricks, Ph.D.,
Bryan D. Byers, Ph.D.,
Kiesha Warren-Gordon, Ph.D.
Date Published
2011
Length
226 pages
Annotation
This book, the third edition of Multicultural Perspectives in Criminal Justice and Criminology, addresses cultural diversity, criminal justice, and criminology.
Abstract
This book is intended for use by criminal justice/criminology teachers, criminal justice personnel, criminologists, and students of criminal justice/criminology who are interested in studying the issue of diversity as it relates to criminal justice. In this edition, the book's editors combined chapters and updated certain subjects in order to give a narrower focus on the issue of diversity in criminal justice. The book contains seven chapters authored by experts in criminal justice issues as they exist within a multicultural context. Chapter 1, Multicultural Issues and Perspectives, presents an overview of the problem of race, race relations, and the criminal justice system. Chapter 2, Race and Criminal Justice examines the issue of criminal victimization and offending as they are influenced by race. Chapter 3, Native American in Criminal Justice examines the past and present involvement of Native Americans in the criminal justice system. Chapter 4, Latinos: The Conceptualization of Race uses Latinos as an example for exploring the social construction of knowledge as it applies to the conceptualization and operationalization of race in the criminal justice system. Chapter 5, Asian Americans and the Criminal Justice System, examines each major group of Asian Americans in terms of their arrival in the United States and the subsequent discrimination that they have encountered. Chapter 6, Gays and Lesbians in the Criminal Justice System, examines some of the myths surrounding gays and lesbians. Finally, chapter 7, Hate Crime in Contemporary American Society: A Sociological Approach examines the problem of hate crime in today's society. Name and subject index