Critical and Intersectional Gang Studies

This book offers a critical and empirical examination of gang life, using an intersectional framework considering race, class, gender, and other characteristics.

Author: Jennifer M. Ortiz
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 04/13/2023
Pages: 174
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.73lbs
Size: 10.00h x 7.00w x 0.40d
ISBN: 9780367742140

About the Author

Jennifer M. Ortiz is an associate professor at The College of New Jersey. Dr. Ortiz earned her PhD in criminal justice from John Jay College of Criminal Justice. Her research interests center on structural violence within the criminal justice system, with a focus on prison gangs and reentry post-incarceration. Ortiz's most recent scholarship has been published in The Prison Journal, Corrections: Policy, Practice, and Research and Criminal Justice Review. Ortiz currently serves as an executive board member for Mission Behind Bars and Beyond, a Kentucky-based non-profit reentry organization and as Division Chair for the Division of Convict Criminology of the American Society of Criminology.