1st Edition

Crime and Justice in the Trump Era

Edited By Francis Cullen, Amanda Graham Copyright 2020
204 Pages
by Routledge

204 Pages
by Routledge

204 Pages
by Routledge

Crime and Justice in the Trump Era documents the impact of Trump administration policies on (1) violence against women, (2) the treatment of persons of color, (3) corporate and environmental crime (both domestic and international), and (4) federal crime control policy. First, the book examines how the policies of Donald Trump’s administration have affected the rights and safety of female... Read more

Introduction, Francis T. Cullen and Amanda Graham

Part I. Harming Women

Chapter 1: Defenders of Freedom or Perpetrators and Facilitators of Crimes? Beyond Progressive Retreatism in the Trump Era, Walter S. DeKeseredy

Chapter 2: President or Predator? The Social Construction of Donald Trump in a Divided America, Teresa C. Kulig, Francis T. Cullen, and Murat Haner

Chapter 3: Turning Back the Clock? Violence against Women and the Trump Administration, Dawn L. Rothe and Victoria E. Collins

Chapter 4: Less Safe in the Ivory Tower: Campus Sexual Assault Policy in the Trump Administration, Leah C. Butler, Heejin Lee, and Bonnie S. Fisher

Part II. Borders and Beyond

Chapter 5: America First? Trump, Crime, and Justice Internationally, Ronen Ziv, Amanda Graham, and Liqun Cao

Chapter 6: "Murderers, Rapists, and Bad Hombres": Deconstructing the Immigration-Crime Myths, Cecilia Chouhy and Arelys Madero-Hernandez

Part III. Affecting America

Chapter 7: Will Black Lives Matter to the Police? African Americans’ Concerns about Trump’s Presidency, Hannah D. McManus, Francis T. Cullen, Cheryl Lero Jonson, Alexander L. Burton, and Velmer S. Burton Jr

Chapter 8: Harming America: Corporate Crime in a Context of Deregulation, Michael L. Benson, William A. Stadler, and Henry N. Pontell

Chapter 9: Justice, Not Jailbreak: The Context and Consequence of the First Step Act, Derek M. Cohen

Biography

Francis T. Cullen is Distinguished Research Professor Emeritus in the School of Criminal Justice at the University of Cincinnati. He is the past president of the American Society of Criminology and the Academy of Criminal Justice Sciences. He has published more than 400 works spanning criminological theory, correctional policy, and white-collar crime.



Amanda Graham is Assistant Professor in the Department of Criminal Justice and Criminology at Georgia Southern University. In 2019, she received her Ph.D. in criminal justice from the University of Cincinnati. Her research focuses on police-community relations, measurement within criminology, and racial beliefs and criminal justice policy.