Full Description
The Agenda for Social Justice: Solutions for 2016 provides accessible insights into some of the most pressing social problems in the United States 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), it offers recommendations for action by elected officials, policy makers, and the public around key issues for social justice, including a discussion of the role of key issues of sustainability and technology in the development and timbre of future social problems. It will be of interest to scholars, practitioners, advocates, and students interested in public sociology and the study of social problems.
Contents
President's Welcome ‾ David A. Smith;
Editorial Introduction ‾ Glenn W. Muschert and Brian V. Klocke;
About the Society for the Study of Social Problems;
Section I: Gender, Sexuality, and Injustice;
One: Campus Sexual Assault: Addressing a Systemic Social Problem in the United States ‾ Kristen Budd, Alana Van Gundy, Glenn W. Muschert, and Rose Marie Ward;
Two: Missing Rights and Misplaced Justice for Sex Workers in the United States ‾ Crystal A. Jackson and Jennifer J. Reed;
Section II: Public and Environmental Health;
Three: Factory Farming: Impacts and Potential Solutions ‾ Ryan Gunderson, Diana Stuart, and Brian Petersen;
Four: Solutions to the Social Problem of Food Insecurity in the United States ‾ Leslie Hossfeld, Brooke Kelly, and Julia Waity;
Five: After Health Care Reform: Enduring Challenges for Justice in the American Health Care System ‾ Jennifer Roebuck Bulanda;
Section III: Race, Labor, and Poverty;
Six: Global Labor Social Justice on University Campuses ‾ Michelle Christian;
Seven: When Home Disappears: How the Rise in Urban and Evictions Threatens Families ‾ Obie Clayton and Barbara Harris Combs;
Eight: The Racial Implications of Immigration Policy ‾ Trenita B. Childers and San Juanita García;
Section IV: Criminal (In)Justice;
Nine: Gun Violence in the U.S.: Prevalence, Consequences, and Policy Implications ‾ Kellie R. Lynch, Tony P. Love, and Claire M. Renzetti;
Ten: American Prisons: Consequences of Mass Incarceration ‾ Alana Van Gundy;
Section V: Looking Forward;
Eleven: The Surprising Link between Sustainability and Social Justice ‾ Amitai Etzioni;
Twelve: Techno-fallacies in the Search for Solutions to Social Problems ‾ Gary T. Marx;
Afterword: The importance of Social Movements for Transformative Policy Solutions Towards Inclusive Social Justice and Democracy ‾ Brian V. Klocke.
