Toward Justice: Broadening the Study of Criminal Justice

Toward Justice: Broadening the Study of Criminal Justice
ISBN-10
1317290550
ISBN-13
9781317290551
Category
Social Science
Pages
472
Language
English
Published
2017-03-16
Publisher
Routledge
Authors
Kristi Holsinger, Lori Sexton

Description

Designed as a text for Criminal Justice and Criminology capstone courses, Toward Justice encourages students to engage critically with conceptions of justice that go beyond the criminal justice system, in order to cultivate a more thorough understanding of the system as it operates on the ground in an imperfect world—where people aren’t always rational actors, where individual cases are linked to larger social problems, and where justice can sometimes slip through the cracks. Through a combined focus on content and professional development, Toward Justice helps students translate what they have learned in the classroom into active strategies for justice in their professional lives—preparing them for careers that will not simply maintain the status quo and stability that exists within our justice system, but rather challenge the system to achieve justice.

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