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Author : Blair A. Martin
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 200 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (313 download)
Download or read book Barriers to Housing and Employment Facing African American Male Ex-offenders written by Blair A. Martin and published by . This book was released on 2008 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Henrie M. Treadwell
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
ISBN 13 : 1118235185
Total Pages : 275 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (182 download)
Download or read book Social Determinants of Health Among African-American Men written by Henrie M. Treadwell and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2012-09-20 with total page 275 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This groundbreaking book applies the concept of social determinants of health to the health of African- American men. While there have been significant efforts in recent years to eliminate health disparities, serious disparities continue to exist especially with regard to African–American men who continue to suffer disproportionately from poor health when compared to other racial, ethnic, and gender groups in the United States. This book covers the most important issues relating to social determinants of health and also offers viable strategies for reducing health disparities.
Author : Georgia A. Persons
Publisher : Transaction Publishers
ISBN 13 : 141280907X
Total Pages : 417 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (128 download)
Download or read book The Expanding Boundaries of Black Politics written by Georgia A. Persons and published by Transaction Publishers. This book was released on 2011-12-31 with total page 417 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume joins the preceding volumes in this distinguished series in presenting contemporary research by leading political scientists addressing topics of interest to those concerned with African-American affairs. It captures the expanding boundaries of black politics and the persistent interests of the black community at large. The anchoring symposium, "The Expanding Boundaries of Black Politics," presents the scholarship of a cadre of young black political scientists actively engaged in the critical tasks of moving forward the study of black politics. Their concerns include expanding the boundaries of black politics along the lines of epistemology and methodology, especially in regard to core issues and areas within this field. In an introductory essay by Todd Shaw, the work of these scholars is situated within the context of temporal shifts in scholarly emphases. Overlapping issues and concerns across time as well as black political scholarship as defined in the field since its beginning are addressed. The second part of this volume, entitled "Maximizing the Black Vote; Recognizing the Limits of Electoral Politics," concentrates on serious lingering social concerns. These include the policy significance of black mayors affecting the concomitant impact of the black vote, the boundaries being pushed concerning the conjunction of black theology and sexual identity, a gendered analysis of familial policies, and the deepening social and economic plight of young black males including felon disfranchisement. The Expanding Boundaries of Black Politics carries forth the search for an understanding of the relationship between religion, the black church, and black political behavior; cross-racial group coalitions as concerns matters of immigration, growing multiculturalism, and the impact on black politics; maximizing the impact of the black vote focusing on voting rights enforcement, the black vote in presidential elections, and the voice of the Congressional Black Caucus in American foreign policy; and persistent social inequalities especially as it concerns ideology, federalism, and social welfare policy.
Author : Ricardo Smith Ph.D.
Publisher : Page Publishing Inc
ISBN 13 : 1644627728
Total Pages : 113 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (446 download)
Download or read book Voices Cry Out written by Ricardo Smith Ph.D. and published by Page Publishing Inc. This book was released on 2019-03-14 with total page 113 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Voices Cry Out: Postprison Mind-Set identifies how power is perpetuated through prison systems in terms of policies and economics. In the emergence of ethnic movements for equity in an institutional societal system, voices continue to cry out because of America's racialized mechanisms of social control. Ex-offenders often struggle with finding gainful employment, housing, and voting obstacles after prison. Both social control and social incarceration represent a linchpin recidivism connection of criminal for life to the unjust criminal justice system.
Author : Floyd Weatherspoon
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 113740843X
Total Pages : 125 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (374 download)
Download or read book African-American Males and the U.S. Justice System of Marginalization: A National Tragedy written by Floyd Weatherspoon and published by Springer. This book was released on 2014-08-06 with total page 125 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: African-American Males and the US Justice System of Marginalization provides an overview of the economic and social status of African-American males in America, which continues to deteriorate at an alarming rate. Weatherspoon posits that in every American institutional system, from birth to death, the journey of African-American males to achieve racial justice and equity in this country is ignored, marginalized, and exploited. The American justice system, in particular, has permitted and in some cases sanctioned the marginalization of African-American males as full citizens. Weatherspoon examines the idea that African-American males are disproportionately represented in every aspect of the criminal justice system, and that the marginalization of African-American males in America has a long and treacherous history that continues to negatively impact their economic, political, and social status.
Author : Lior Gideon
Publisher : SAGE
ISBN 13 : 1412970180
Total Pages : 897 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (129 download)
Download or read book Rethinking Corrections written by Lior Gideon and published by SAGE. This book was released on 2011 with total page 897 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Explores the challenges faced by convicted offenders over the course of rehabilitation and reintegration. Each chapter focuses on a specific phase of the process.
Author : Tamara Thornton Clunis
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 370 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (669 download)
Download or read book Swimming Against the Current written by Tamara Thornton Clunis and published by . This book was released on 2010 with total page 370 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Donna Youngs
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1351207423
Total Pages : 173 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (512 download)
Download or read book Crime and Society written by Donna Youngs and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2019-07-09 with total page 173 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Much of a society’s resources are devoted to dealing with, or preparing for the possibility of, crime. The dominance of concerns about crime also hint at the broader implications that offending has for many different facets of society. They suggest that rather than being an outlawed subset of social activity, crime is an integrated aspect of societal processes. This book reviews some of the direct and indirect social impacts of criminality, proposing that this is worthwhile, not just in terms of understanding crime, but also because of how it elucidates more general social considerations. A range of studies that examine the interactions between crime and society are brought together, drawing on a wide range of countries and cultures including India, Israel, Nigeria, Turkey, and the USA, as well as the UK and Ireland. They include contributions from many different social science disciplines, which, taken together, demonstrate that the implicit and direct impact of crime is very widespread indeed. The chapters in this book were originally published as a special issue of Contemporary Social Science.
Author : United States. Congress. House. Committee on Oversight and Government Reform
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 1668 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (318 download)
Download or read book The Silent Depression written by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Oversight and Government Reform and published by . This book was released on 2010 with total page 1668 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Doctor Imogen Tyler
Publisher : Zed Books Ltd.
ISBN 13 : 1848138547
Total Pages : 396 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (481 download)
Download or read book Revolting Subjects written by Doctor Imogen Tyler and published by Zed Books Ltd.. This book was released on 2013-04-11 with total page 396 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Revolting Subjects is a groundbreaking account of social abjection in contemporary Britain, exploring how particular groups of people are figured as revolting and how they in turn revolt against their abject subjectification. The book utilizes a number of high-profile and in-depth case studies - including 'chavs', asylum seekers, Gypsies and Travellers, and the 2011 London riots - to examine the ways in which individuals negotiate restrictive neoliberal ideologies of selfhood. In doing so, Tyler argues for a deeper psychosocial understanding of the role of representational forms in producing marginality, social exclusion and injustice, whilst also detailing how stigmatization and scapegoating are resisted through a variety of aesthetic and political strategies. Imaginative and original, Revolting Subjects introduces a range of new insights into neoliberal societies, and will be essential reading for those concerned about widening inequalities, growing social unrest and social justice in the wider global context.
Author : Michelle Alexander
Publisher : The New Press
ISBN 13 : 1620971941
Total Pages : 434 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (29 download)
Download or read book The New Jim Crow written by Michelle Alexander and published by The New Press. This book was released on 2020-01-07 with total page 434 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Named one of the most important nonfiction books of the 21st century by Entertainment Weekly‚ Slate‚ Chronicle of Higher Education‚ Literary Hub, Book Riot‚ and Zora A tenth-anniversary edition of the iconic bestseller—"one of the most influential books of the past 20 years," according to the Chronicle of Higher Education—with a new preface by the author "It is in no small part thanks to Alexander's account that civil rights organizations such as Black Lives Matter have focused so much of their energy on the criminal justice system." —Adam Shatz, London Review of Books Seldom does a book have the impact of Michelle Alexander's The New Jim Crow. Since it was first published in 2010, it has been cited in judicial decisions and has been adopted in campus-wide and community-wide reads; it helped inspire the creation of the Marshall Project and the new $100 million Art for Justice Fund; it has been the winner of numerous prizes, including the prestigious NAACP Image Award; and it has spent nearly 250 weeks on the New York Times bestseller list. Most important of all, it has spawned a whole generation of criminal justice reform activists and organizations motivated by Michelle Alexander's unforgettable argument that "we have not ended racial caste in America; we have merely redesigned it." As the Birmingham News proclaimed, it is "undoubtedly the most important book published in this century about the U.S." Now, ten years after it was first published, The New Press is proud to issue a tenth-anniversary edition with a new preface by Michelle Alexander that discusses the impact the book has had and the state of the criminal justice reform movement today.
Author : Anthony J. Lemelle
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN 13 : 1441996168
Total Pages : 291 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (419 download)
Download or read book Handbook of African American Health written by Anthony J. Lemelle and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2011-08-09 with total page 291 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The U.S. Census Bureau reports particular demographic, social, and health conditions for African Americans. Population-wide, the African American community has a higher mortality rate from cancer and diabetes than the rest of the population, a higher infant mortality rate, and a lower vaccination rate for influenza and pneumonia. The contributions to this comprehensive Handbook of African American Health uncover the specific demographic conditions of the African American population, and outline social interventions for both physical and mental health at the primary, secondary, and tertiary levels. The 26 contributions to this comprehensive volume cover interventions for a diverse range of health problems, including:-obesity and cardiovascular disease-diabetes-asthma and other respiratory diseases-smoking, alcohol, and recreational drug abuse-risky sexual behaviors-cancer screening, prevention, and survivorship-infant mortality-community and interpersonal violence-mental health. From a healthcare standpoint, it also examines specific interventions for treatment compliance, health care access, and community collaborations. This volume will be an invaluable resource for researchers in medical sociology, mental health studies, public health, health behavior, and African American studies.
Author : Athena D. Mutua
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 0415976863
Total Pages : 315 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (159 download)
Download or read book Progressive Black Masculinities written by Athena D. Mutua and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2006 with total page 315 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Progressive Black Masculinities brings together leading black cultural critics including Michael Eric Dyson, Mark Anthony Neal, and Patricia Hill Collins to examine an alternatively demonized and mythologized black masculinity.
Author : Pia L. Scott
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 280 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (969 download)
Download or read book African American Men Speak written by Pia L. Scott and published by . This book was released on 2016 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This qualitative phenomenological study explored the experiences of formerly incarcerated African American men participating in the Self-Paced In Class Education (SPICE) program to understand the perceived barriers to reentry and how the program supported their transition back into society. By using Bronfenbrenner's ecological framework and qualitative phenomenology (Bronfenbrenner, 1979; Moustakas, 1994), the study assessed the dynamics of prisoner reentry from the perspective of nine formerly incarcerated African American men to explore their experiences from childhood to adulthood. Data was collected through interviews to address the following research questions: (a) What barriers to societal reentry do formerly incarcerated African American males perceive when they exit prison?, (b) How do the participants in the Self-Paced In Class Education program describe utilizing the contents of the program outside of prison?, and (c) How do the participants in the Self-Paced In Class Education program describe their engagement with allied agencies that support their transition to life beyond prison walls? The findings suggest that African American men perceived barrier difficulties in the reentry and transition process to include lack of housing, education, employment, and assistance from allied agencies. Understanding the essence of the African American male's experiences with the reentry process will contribute to the field of criminal justice reform and support the needs of African American men returning home from prison. Keywords: reentry, recidivism, rehabilitation, correctional education
Author : Nancy K. Young
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 252 pages
Book Rating : 4.E/5 ( download)
Download or read book Integrating Substance Abuse Treatment and Vocational Services written by Nancy K. Young and published by . This book was released on 2006 with total page 252 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Margery Austin Turner
Publisher : The Urban Insitute
ISBN 13 : 9780877667551
Total Pages : 308 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (675 download)
Download or read book Public Housing and the Legacy of Segregation written by Margery Austin Turner and published by The Urban Insitute. This book was released on 2009 with total page 308 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For the past two decades the United States has been transforming distressed public housing communities, with three ambitious goals: replace distressed developments with healthy mixed-income communities; help residents relocate to affordable housing, often in the private market; and empower former public housing families toward economic self-sufficiency. The transformation has focused on deconcentrating poverty, but not on the underlying role of racial segregation in creating these distressed communities. In Public Housing and the Legacy of Segregation, scholars and public housing officials assess whether--and how--public housing policies can simultaneously address the problems of poverty and race.
Author : Keesha Middlemass
Publisher : NYU Press
ISBN 13 : 0814724396
Total Pages : 297 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (147 download)
Download or read book Convicted and Condemned written by Keesha Middlemass and published by NYU Press. This book was released on 2017-06-27 with total page 297 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Winner, W. E. B. DuBois Distinguished Book Award presented by the National Conference of Black Political Scientists Examines the lifelong consequences of a felony conviction through the compelling words of former prisoners Felony convictions restrict social interactions and hinder felons’ efforts to reintegrate into society. The educational and vocational training offered in many prisons are typically not recognized by accredited educational institutions as acceptable course work or by employers as valid work experience, making it difficult for recently-released prisoners to find jobs. Families often will not or cannot allow their formerly incarcerated relatives to live with them. In many states, those with felony convictions cannot receive financial aid for further education, vote in elections, receive welfare benefits, or live in public housing. In short, they are not treated as full citizens, and every year, hundreds of thousands of people released from prison are forced to live on the margins of society. Convicted and Condemned explores the issue of prisoner reentry from the felons’ perspective. It features the voices of formerly incarcerated felons as they attempt to reconnect with family, learn how to acclimate to society, try to secure housing, find a job, and complete a host of other important goals. By examining national housing, education and employment policies implemented at the state and local levels, Keesha Middlemass shows how the law challenges and undermines prisoner reentry and creates second-class citizens. Even if the criminal justice system never convicted another person of a felony, millions of women and men would still have to figure out how to reenter society, essentially on their own. A sobering account of the after-effects of mass incarceration, Convicted and Condemned is a powerful exploration of how individuals, and society as a whole, suffer when a felony conviction exacts a punishment that never ends.
