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Teaching Criminology at the Intersection

A How-to Guide for Teaching about Gender, Race, and Class

Edited by Rebecca Hayes Smith, Kate Luther, Susan Caringella

To Be Published February 15th 2014 by Routledge – 224 pages

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    Description

    Topics, which surround gender, race, ethnicity, and class, produce some of the most challenging issues for classroom lectures and discussions. These conversations, which many people find uncomfortable, are commonly met with resistance in the classroom when students are asked to examine how victimization is gendered, how racial profiling affects the criminal justice system, or how socioeconomic status shapes defendant’s experiences in court.

    Teaching Criminology at the Intersection is an instructional guide to support faculty as they navigate teaching these topics. By combining the experience and knowledge of an international set of expert scholars with pedagogical theory, this book will provide time-strapped academics with an accessible how-to guide for the classroom where the dynamics and discrimination of gender, race, and class demographics intersect and permeate criminological concerns. Each chapter will discuss the particular challenges related to teaching about their topic and their suggestions for best practice, while grounding their ideas in pedagogical theory. Reading list will be provided for each topic as well as a ‘toolkit’ of assignments, activities, syllabi, images, or video links.

    Contents

    1. Introduction to Teaching Gender, Race/Ethnicity and Class to Criminal Justice Students, 2. The Social Construction of a Monster: Teaching How We Construct our Realities to Undergraduates, 3. Research on Teaching Sensitive Topics: What We’ve Learned and Where We Go from Here, 4. Race, Crime, and Incarceration, 5. Teaching about Social Class and Crime, 6. Teaching about Victimization, 7. Women are more than Victims: Gender in the Criminal Justice System, 8. Teaching about Crimes Against Gays and Lesbians, 9. Intersections of Gender, Race/Ethnicity and Class in Criminology and the Future of Criminal Justice Education

    Name: Teaching Criminology at the Intersection: A How-to Guide for Teaching about Gender, Race, and Class (eBook) – Routledge 
    Description: Edited by Rebecca Hayes Smith, Kate Luther, Susan Caringella. Topics, which surround gender, race, ethnicity, and class, produce some of the most challenging issues for classroom lectures and discussions. These conversations, which many people find uncomfortable, are commonly met with resistance in the classroom...
    Categories: Criminology and Criminal Justice, Gender Studies - Soc Sci, Race & Ethnic Studies, Criminology - Law, Social Class, Education, Victims and Victimology