Social Justice

LORETTA CAPEHEART is a retired associate professor of justice studies at Northeastern Illinois University. She was the community engagement analyst for a Department of Justice settlement agreement and a college equity officer. She has published on inequities in education and criminal justice. Her activism focuses on immigrant rights, worker rights, and antiracism.  DRAGAN MILOVANOVIC, is professor emeritus and Bernard J. Brommel Distinguished Research Professor at Northeastern Illinois University. In addition he has been a college instructor in a jail, a dormitory counselor of incarcerated juveniles, a member of a prison inspection team, and an activist in post-revolutionary Nicaragua (1983–1985).  He is author or coauthor of more than twenty-five books.

This new edition effectively updates an all-too-rare book in the criminal justice library. The additions link the book to many contemporary debates that have evolved since it was first published. - Raymond J. Michalowski (Northern Arizona University) This book is a major contribution to the field and sensitizes us to the importance of moving beyond mainstream, narrow conceptions of justice. - Walter S. DeKeseredy (Professor of Criminology, Justice and Policy Studies, University of Ontario) This book is as provocative as it is path-breaking on a topic that richly deserves to be center stage in the drama of everyday life. Capeheart and Milovanovic set the new standard for understanding the theories, issues and struggles that represent the call for social justice at home and abroad, in our institutions and communities, and throughout our very existences. - Bruce A. Arrigo (coauthor of Theory, Justice, and Social Change)

• ContentsPreface                                                           1. Introduction                                                                                                           Part I  Explorations in Social Justice                         2. Conceptions of Justice:  Philosophical, Sociological, and Criminological             3. Distributive Justice                                                                                    4. Retributive Justice                                                                                     5. Toward Transformative Justice                                                                  Part II Issues in Social Justice                                               6. Multiculturalism and Globalism: Challenges and Opportunities for Developing Forms of Justice                                               7. Environmental, Ecological, And Species Justice                                                   8. Indigenous, Postcolonial, and Counter-colonial Forms of Justice                                     9. Postmodern, Post Postmodern, and Posthumanist Forms of Justice                                 Part III Struggles for Social Justice                           10. Legal Struggles and Social Justice                                                           11. Justice and Grassroots Struggles                                                             12. Emerging Conceptions of Justice in a Global Arena                               13. Conclusion                                                                                                           References                                                                                                     Index