Social, political, and economic relationships played key roles in the historical development
of the police. The authors present policing strategies from the vantage points of marginalized …

The authors reviewed 18 criminal justice and 13 policing texts published since 2000 to
explore the amount of coverage these texts give to the relationship between slavery, slave …

In recent years, the issue of racism in the criminal justice system has reemerged. The result
has been a panoply of attacks and counterattacks about the effectiveness of the justice …

Although criminal justice has made strides to incorporate issues of race, ethnicity, class, and
gender into both research and teaching, the same cannot be said about issues of …

The criminal justice system is supposed to protect and serve all members of the community
equally; therefore, any prejudicial attitudes harbored by criminal justice students may …

Estimates indicate hate crimes are a growing concern in the United States. This paper
addresses how criminal justice students perceive victims of hate crimes. Survey findings …

Inclusion of race and gender in criminal justice education has, to some degree, been
prompted as a result of perceived bias by criminal justice system professionals. Utilizing the …

Without the explanatory power of general theoretical principles, criminal justice educators
are limited to subjectively describing the structure and function of our systems of criminal …

We discuss our experience teaching undergraduate students about prisons. First, we
describe the design of a course, including course goals, course content and some …

This study explores the relationship between Black police officers, Black citizens, and their
external environment using a group of 30 police officers and citizens to establish the …