Full Description
The Global Agenda for Social Justice 3 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 period poverty, climate justice, algorithmic bias, labor rights and global inequality.
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.
Contents
Acknowledgments
About SSSP
SSSP Presidential Welcome - Sarah Jane Brubaker
Editorial Introduction - Lauren Danielowski and Kristen M. Budd
Part I: Crime, Justice, and Government
1. Gangs and the Anti-Gang Problem - Robert Northman
2. The Intersection of Mental Health and Criminal Justice Systems - Steven Keener and Audrey Vi Morrison
3. Strategies to Improve Access to Justice: Legal Literacy and Legal Empowerment - Margaret L. Phillips
4. Algorithmic Bias in Governance: Reasons and Responses - Saif Shahin and Nathalie Schabio
Part II: Inequalities and Injustices
5. A Global Agenda for Gender Justice in STEM - Kristy Kelly and John Issahaku
6. Period Poverty and Menstrual Health in a Global Context - Denae J. Cook and Sevaughn Banks
7. Global Learning Poverty and Household Welfare - Yvonne A. Braun and John Mefful
8. Climate Change, Vulnerability and Justice in India: A Review - Ananda Rao Kuriti
Part III: Labor and Housing Insecurity
9. The Affordable Housing Crisis as a Global Social Problem - Judith R. Halasz
10. Precarious Labor and the Global Sports Event Industry - Dale Sheptak and Brian Monahan
11. Improving the Working Conditions of Global Garment Workers - Benjamin B. Velasco
Part IV: Reflections
12. Rethinking Cosmopolitanism: Insights from Migrant Mobilities - Hee Eun Kwon
13. The Rules of Remembrance for Public Sociologists - Michael O. Johnston and Glenn W. Muschert
14. Afterword - Morena Tartari
