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Series: Criminology and Justice Studies
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Published February 18th 2010 by Routledge
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Beyond Bad Girls
Gender, Violence and Hype
In this important new work, two respected criminologists challenge the characterization of the new 'bad girl' arguing that it is only a new attempt to punish girls who are not the stereotypical depiction of good. Through interviews with young women, educators and people in the criminal justice...
Published August 30th 2007 by Routledge
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Race, Law, and American Society
1607-Present
Series: Criminology and Justice Studies
In Race, Law, and American Society: 1607 to Present Gloria Browne-Marshall traces the history of racial discrimination in American law from colonial times to the present, analyzing the key court cases that established America’s racial system and showing their impact on American...
Published March 19th 2007 by Routledge
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Racist America
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This second edition of Joe Feagin’s Racist America is extensively revised and thoroughly updated, with a special eye toward racism issues cropping up constantly in the Barack Obama era. This tenth anniversary edition incorporates many dozens of new research studies on U.S. racial issues that...
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A Theory of African American Offending
Race, Racism, and Crime
Series: Criminology and Justice Studies
A little more than a century ago, the famous social scientist W.E.B. Du Bois asserted that a true understanding of African American offending must be grounded in the "real conditions" of what it means to be black living in a racial stratified society. Today and according to official statistics,...
Published February 27th 2011 by Routledge
