The Agenda for Social Justice 3: Solutions for 2024 provides accessible insights into some of the most pressing social problems and proposes public policy responses to those problems.
Written by a highly respected team of authors brought together by the Society for the Study of Social Problems (SSSP), the book offers recommendations for action by elected officials, policymakers and the public regarding key issues for social justice. Chapters include discussion of social problems related to criminal justice, the economy, food insecurity, education, healthcare, housing and immigration.
The book will be of interest to scholars, practitioners, advocates and students interested in public sociology, the study of social problems and the pursuit of social justice.
Spis treści
PART I Crime, law, and policy
one From blame to criminalization: Black motherhood and intimate partner violence – Sarah Jane Brubaker
two Curbing pretextual traffic stops to reduce racial profiling – Lance Hannon, Lindsay Redditt, and Brooke Cordes
three Pay to talk: the financial barriers, consequences, and solutions to prison and jail communication- Sydney Ingel and Hayley Carlisle
four Immigration enforcement: the impact of crimmigration on mixed- immigration- status families in the US and the need for reform – Gabriela Gonzalez
five News media and the crime coverage problem – Kristen M. Budd and Nazgol Ghandnoosh
PART II Education
six Caught in the crossfire: K- 12 education and anti- CRT measures – Ashley N. Gwathney and Charity Anderson
seven Inequality in the experiential core: using pathways to understand and improve college students’ journeys – Blake R. Silver and Monique H. Harrison
PART III Food insecurity
eight Addressing food insecurity through community- informed food retailer implementation – Drew Bonner and Katie Kerstetter
nine How inflation and food deserts made a bad poverty measure worse— and what we can do about it – Teresa A. Sullivan
PART IV Health and healthcare
ten Reproductive health in crisis: access to abortion and contraception in the US – Kristen Lagasse Burke and Dana M. Johnson
eleven A bold policy agenda for improving immigrant healthcare access in the US – Tiffany D. Joseph and Meredith Van Natta
twelve Gender- affirming healthcare for transgender and gender minority youth – Ashley C. Rondini
thirteen At the nexus of reproductive and juvenile (in)justice: the (re)production of sexual and reproductive health disparities for system- impacted Black girls – Raquel E. Rose and Mc Kenzie Berezin
fourteen Centering racial justice in the US emergency response framework – Sophie Webb
PART V Housing insecurity
fifteen Affordable housing in America: a matter of availability, access, and accountability – Jeanne Kimpel
sixteen Shelter from the storm: a framework for housing and climate justice – Tony R. Samara
PART VI Looking forward
seventeen Social problems in the age of culture wars – David C. Lane
Afterword – Elroi J. Windsor
O autorze
Jason A. Smith is Research Affiliate at the Center for Social Science Research at George Mason University.
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