Policy Press

Agenda for Social Justice 3

Solutions for 2024

Edited by Kristen Budd, Heather Dillaway, David Lane, Glenn Muschert, Manjusha Nair and Jason Smith

Published

Aug 7, 2024

Page count

184 pages

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SSSP Agendas for Social Justice

ISBN

978-1447371397

Dimensions

234 x 156 mm

Imprint

Policy Press

Published

Aug 7, 2024

Page count

184 pages

Browse the series

SSSP Agendas for Social Justice

ISBN

978-1447371403

Dimensions

234 x 156 mm

Imprint

Policy Press

Published

Aug 7, 2024

Page count

184 pages

Browse the series

SSSP Agendas for Social Justice

ISBN

978-1447371403

Dimensions

234 x 156 mm

Imprint

Policy Press
Agenda for Social Justice 3

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.

“The Agenda for Social Justice 3 is an amazing example of emancipatory social science. It shows how sociological tools can be serve social change and alleviate social problems.” Morena Tartari, Northumbria University

Kristen M. Budd is a Research Analyst at The Sentencing Project, an organisation which advocates for effective and humane responses to crime that minimize imprisonment and criminalization of youth and adults by promoting racial, ethnic, economic, and gender justice.

Heather Dillaway is Associate Dean of the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences and Professor of the Department of Sociology at Wayne State University, USA

David C. Lane is Associate Professor in the Department of Criminal Justice Sciences at Illinois State University.

Glenn W. Muschert is Professor of Sociology in the Department of Humanities & Social Sciences at Khalifa University of Science and Technology, and Len Jessup Professor of Leadership and Organizational Change in the School of Business at Woxsen University.

Manjusha Nair is Associate Professor of Sociology at George Mason University.

Jason A. Smith is a Research Affiliate at the Center for Social Science Research at George Mason University.

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 McKenzie 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