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Author Potter, Hillary, 1969- author.

Title Intersectionality and criminology : disrupting and revolutionizing studies of crime / Hillary Potter
Published London [England] ; New York, New York : Routledge, 2015
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Description 1 online resource (209 pages)
Series New Directions in Critical Criminology ; 12
New directions in critical criminology ; 12.
Contents Cover; Title; Copyright; Dedication; CONTENTS; Acknowledgments; 1 Disrupting criminology: the need to integrate intersectionality into criminological research and theory; 2 Illuminating intersectionality: formation of the intersectional standpoint; 3 Reduxing criminology: an intersectional assessment of identity- and power-blind research and theory; 4 Intersecting criminology: exemplars of intersectional perspectives in criminological research and theorizing; 5 Revolutionizing criminology: the societal impact of intersectional criminology; References; Index
Summary The use of intersectionality theory in the social sciences has proliferated in the past several years, putting forward the argument that the interconnected identities of individuals, and the way these identities are perceived and responded to by others, must be a necessary part of any analysis. Fundamentally, intersectionality claims that not only are people's lived experiences affected by their racial identity and by their gender identity, but that these identities, and others, continually operate together and affect each other. With ""official"" statistical data that indicate people of Color
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
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Subject Criminology -- Study and teaching
Crime -- Sociological aspects.
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Criminology.
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Ethnic Studies -- African American Studies.
Crime -- Sociological aspects
Criminology -- Study and teaching
Kriminologie
Kriminalität
Gesellschaft
Form Electronic book
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