Social Justice, Criminal Justice
Subtitle: The Role of American Law in Effecting and Preventing Social Change
Publisher: Taylor & Francis Group
Published: 2015
Language: eng
Number of pages: 280
ISBN-13: 9780323264518
Subjects: Criminal justice, administration of; Social justice; Criminal law, united states; Sociological jurisprudence
Description: ""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 of a system of exclusion for groups with minority status, such as racial and ethnic minorities, the poor, women, and the LGBT (lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender) community.""--Publisher's description.