ABSTRACT
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.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
part I|146 pages
Understanding Justice
chapter |13 pages
Selected Reading: “It Was Basically College to Us”
chapter |16 pages
Selected Reading: Pretrial Detention and Guilty Pleas
chapter |32 pages
Selected Reading: Where the Margins Meet
part II|147 pages
Locating Justice in Criminal Justice
chapter |23 pages
Selected Reading: Worlds Apart
chapter |26 pages
Selected Reading: Perceived Criminal Threat from Undocumented Immigrants
chapter |20 pages
Selected Reading: Broken Windows or Window Breakers
chapter |17 pages
Selected Reading: Build to Sustain
part III|175 pages
Creating Justice