Navigating Stigma

Cindy Brooks Dollar is Professor and Director of Graduate Studies in the Department of Sociology, Criminology, and Justice Studies at University of North Carolina Greensboro.Grant Tietjen is Associate Professor in the School of Social Work & Criminal Justice at the University of Washington Tacoma.

• 1. Introduction to the Text – Cindy Brooks Dollar and Grant Tietjen2. My Journey With Social Stigma: False Narratives, Education, and Empowerment – Grant Tietjen3. Stigma, Digitalized Identity and Interpretative Agency: A Poetic Criminological Inquiry of Heideggerian Flattening – Lucas Alan Dietsche4. Stigma: Wearing the Label – Sinem Bozkurt5. Tale of a Turtle: An Account of Accountability – maryam turtle6. The Stigma of Addiction – Scott Bauer7. Problem Child Be a Problem: The Social Currency of Black Masculinity Is Shadowed by Perceived Criminality – Steven Randolph Cureton8. “This Isn’t God’s Plan for You”: Evangelicalism, Sexual Concealment, and Stigma Management – Andrew Ainsworth9. Stigma and Scapegoating: A Personalized Account – Jennifer Thompson10. Am I a Real Victim?: A Former Altar Boy and Current Critical Criminologist’s Story – David Kauzlarich11. Stop Crying or I’ll Give You Something to Cry About: The Invisible Line Between Child Abuse and Spankings – LaToya Dixon Thomas12. Gendered Perceptions and Violence Against Children in the Stranger Danger Era – Cindy Brooks Dollar13. Letters, Visits, and the Space Between: Narrating Stigma, Contact, and Identity Formation During Parental Imprisonment – Garrett T. Lutheran14. Discussion and Conclusion – Cindy Brooks Dollar and Grant Tietjen