Agenda for Social Justice
President's Welcome
The difference between the Society for the Study of Social Problems and most other academic professional organizations is that for over fifty years, the SSSP has worked to bring excellent scholarship on the pressing issues of the day to agents of change and to apply that knowledge to solutions for those social problems. Our Society’s founders really did believe the point was not to simply understand society, but to change it! Today our society is dedicated to nourishing a form of “public sociology” that is designed to be useful to policy makers and activists. It is our way of giving something back to people and institutions that participate in the difficult but essential work of crafting progressive solutions to contemporary social problems. It is in that spirit that we offer the Agenda for Social Justice: Solutions 2016. I am very proud to be part of an organization that produces this sort of fine publication and I do believe that it will, indeed, help set the agenda for social justice in the coming years. Thanks to all the authors and particularly the tireless work of Glenn W. Muschert and the SSSP Justice 21 Committee!
Sincerely,
David A. Smith, University of California, Irvine
SSSP President, 2015-2016
The Agenda for Social Justice: Solutions 2016 provides accessible insights into some of the most pressing social problems in the United States and proposes public policy responses to those problems. It offers recommendations for action by elected officials, policy makers, and the public around key issues for social justice, including a discussion of the role of key issues of sustainability and technology in the development and timbre of future social problems.
"Accessible summaries of social science research on some of the most critical social problems we face....an invaluable guide to developing awareness, understanding and movement toward a more just and sustainable world." Kathleen Ferraro, Northern Arizona University, and SSSP President 2003-2004
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Agenda for Social Justice: Solutions 2016 is the first issue published by Policy Press.
Table of Contents
Editors: Glenn W. Muschert; Brian V. Klocke; Robert Perrucci; Jon Shefner
Front Matter |
President’s Welcome |
SECTION I Gender, Sexuality, and Injustice |
Chapter 1. Campus Sexual Assault: Addressing a Systemic Social Problem in the United States |
Chapter 2. Missing Rights and Misplaced Justice for Sex Workers in the United States |
SECTION II Public and Environmental Health |
Chapter 3. Factory Farming: Impacts and Potential Solutions |
Chapter 4. Solutions to the Social Problem of Food Insecurity in the United States |
Chapter 5. After Health Care Reform: Enduring Challenges for Justice in the American Health Care System |
SECTION III Race, Labor, and Poverty |
Chapter 6. Global Labor Social Justice on University Campuses |
Chapter 7. When Home Disappears: How the Rise in Urban Foreclosures and Evictions Threatens Families |
Chapter 8. The Racial Implications of Immigration Policy |
SECTION IV Criminal (In)Justice |
Chapter 9. Gun Violence in the U.S.: Prevalence, Consequences, and Policy Implications |
Chapter 10. American Prisons: Consequences of Mass Incarceration |
SECTION V Looking Forward |
Chapter 11. The Surprising Link between Sustainability and Social Justice |
Chapter 12. Techno-fallacies in the Search for Solutions to Social Problems |
End Matter |
Afterword: The importance of Social Movements for Transformative Policy Solutions Towards Inclusive Social Justice and by Brian V. Klocke, Ph.D. |