Cyndy Caravelis

Social Justice, Criminal Justice

The Role of American Law in Effecting and Preventing Social Change

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The Role of American Law in Effecting and Preventing Social Change. Social Justice, Criminal Justice is a thought-provoking examination of the U.S. legal system, focusing on how criminal justice and social justice are related. The book provides a solid foundation of key philosophical and theoretical issues and goes on to examine the function of the law as it relates to social justice issues. The authors present and explain the foundational legal documents of the United States, and critically examine how those same documents, which espoused the rhetoric of equality for all, contribute toward the perpetuation and maintenance

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Produktdetails

Weitere Autoren: Robinson, Matthew

ISBN: 978-1-138-95505-9
EAN: 9781138955059
Produktnummer: 23471662
Verlag: Taylor and Francis
Sprache: Englisch
Erscheinungsjahr: 2015
Seitenangabe: 280 S.
Masse: H23.5 cm x B18.7 cm 690 g
Abbildungen: Farb., s/w. Abb.
Gewicht: 690

Über den Autor

Cyndy Caravelis is an Associate Professor at Western Carolina University. Her current research interests include the relationship between social threat and social control, the effect of inequality on crime, theoretical criminology, and the death penalty. Her research on sentencing inequality has been published in journals such as Justice Quarterly and the Journal of Quantitative Criminology. In addition to her academic endeavors, she has extensive field experience in the criminal justice system, including work as a legislative analyst, as a crime intelligence analyst, and as an academic instructor in both male and female correctional institutions.Matthew Robinson is a Professor of Government & Justice Studies at Appalachian State University. Robinson is the author of more than a dozen books on varied topics, including criminological theory, crime prevention, corporate crime, criminal justice, capital punishment, and the drug war. He is Past President of the North Carolina Criminal Justice Association and Past President of the Southern Criminal Justice Association.