About the Society for the Study of Social Problems

Kapitel in diesem Buch

1. Frontmatter i
2. Table of Contents v
3. President’s Welcome vii
4. Editorial Introduction ix
5. Acknowledgements xii
6. About the Society for the Study of Social Problems xiii
7. SECTION I Gender, Sexuality, and Injustice
8. ONE Campus Sexual Assault: Addressing a Systemic Social Problem in the United States 3
9. TWO Missing Rights and Misplaced Justice for Sex Workers in the United States 15
10. SECTION II Public and Environmental Health
11. THREE Factory Farming: Impacts and Potential Solutions 27
12. FOUR Solutions to the Social Problem of Food Insecurity in the United States 39
13. FIVE After Health Care Reform: Enduring Challenges for Justice in the American Health Care System 49
14. SECTION III Race, Labor, and Poverty
15. SIX Global Labor Social Justice on University Campuses 61
16. SEVEN When Home Disappears: How the Rise in Urban Foreclosures and Evictions Threatens Families 71
17. EIGHT The Racial Implications of Immigration Policy 81
18. SECTION IV Criminal (In)Justice
19. NINE Gun Violence in the U.S.: Prevalence, Consequences, and Policy Implications 93
20. TEN American Prisons: Consequences of Mass Incarceration 103
21. SECTION V Looking Forward
22. ELEVEN The Surprising Link between Sustainability and Social Justice 113
23. TWELVE Techno-fallacies in the Search for Solutions to Social Problems 117
24. Afterword: The Importance of Social Movements for Transformative Policy Solutions Towards Inclusive Social Justice and Democracy 127