Product Description: The Complexities of Police Corruption provides a comprehensive examination of the role of gender as it relates to police corruption, crime control, and policing as an institution. Author Marilyn Corsianos examines different forms of corruption, including some behaviors that are generally not recognized as corruption by police departments, such as selective law enforcement, racial profiling, gender bias and other discriminatory police practices against marginalized populations...read more

Product Description: Women continue to be underrepresented in policing, and female officers are more likely to work in gender-specific areas within their organizations. Policing and Gendered Justice provides a comprehensive analysis of women and policing in North America...read more

Product Description: Social justice is a concept we take for granted. We assume that it means using state structures to ensure equality and fairness. But is this true? Or, do state structures of social order actually inhibit creativity, freedom, social welfare and belonging? This collection broadens the boundaries of the ways we think about what constitutes criminality and interrogates issues of social justice and power in new, innovative and critical ways...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)