Monographs & Edited Collections (5,096 posts)

Hope for Justice and Power: Broad-based Community Organizing in the Texas Industrial Areas Foundation

The Haunt of Home: A Journey through America’s Heartland

Tabernacles of Clay Sexuality and Gender in Modern Mormonism

Becoming Men: Black masculinities in a South African township

Coming of Age in Iran: Poverty and the Struggle for Dignity

American Psychiatric Association Publishing Textbook of Schizophrenia, Second Edition

Very Important People: Status and Beauty in the Global Party Circuit

Is Two-Tier Health Care the Future?

Wife, Inc. – The Business of Marriage in the Twenty-First Century

European labour movements in crisis: From indecision to indifference

Contemporary Criminological Issues: Moving Beyond Insecurity and Exclusion

Disaster by Choice: How our actions turn natural hazards into catastrophes

Jail Speak

When Ben Langston took a job at the State Correctional Institute at Rockview, it was because there were few other options. At his previous job—putting labels on water bottles—he did not have cups of human waste thrown in his face. He did not have to finger sweaty armpits in search of weapons. There were no threats against his life. But the jail paid better.

Distorted Descent: White Claims to Indigenous Identity

Mean Streets: Homelessness, Public Space, and the Limits of Capital

Social Justice Theories, Issues, and Movements (Revised and Expanded Edition)

An eye for an eye, the balance of the scales – for centuries, these and other traditional concepts exemplified the public’s perception of justice. Today, popular culture, including television shows like Law and Order, informs the public’s vision. But do age-old symbols, portrayals in the media, and existing systems truly represent justice in all of its nuanced forms, or do we need to think beyond these notions? The second edition of Social Justice: Theories, Issues, and Movements responds to the need for a comprehensive introduction to these issues.