Table of contents

pp v-vi

President’s welcome

pp vii-vii

Editorial introduction

pp viii-ix

About the Society for the Study of Social Problems

pp x-x

Notes on contributors

pp xi-xvii

Acknowledgments

pp xviii-xviii

Part I - Crime, law, and policy

pp 1-2

One - From blame to criminalization: Black motherhood and intimate partner violence

pp 3-9

Two - Curbing pretextual traffic stops to reduce racial profiling

pp 10-18

Three - Pay to talk: the financial barriers, consequences, and solutions to prison and jail communication

pp 19-25

Four - Immigration enforcement: the impact of crimmigration on mixed-immigration-status families in the US and the need for reform

pp 26-34

Five - News media and the crime coverage problem

pp 35-44

Part II - Education

pp 45-46

Six - Caught in the crossfire: K-12 education and anti-CRT measures

pp 47-54

Seven - Inequality in the experiential core: using pathways to understand and improve college students’ journeys

pp 55-64

Part III - Food insecurity

pp 65-66

Eight - Addressing food insecurity through community-informed food retailer implementation

pp 67-75

Nine - How inflation and food deserts made a bad poverty measure worse—and what we can do about it

pp 76-84

Part IV - Health and healthcare

pp 85-86

Ten - Reproductive health in crisis: access to abortion and contraception in the US

pp 87-96

Eleven - A bold policy agenda for improving immigrant healthcare access in the US

pp 97-105

Twelve - Gender-affirming healthcare for transgender and gender minority youth

pp 106-115

Thirteen - At the nexus of reproductive and juvenile (in)justice: the (re)production of sexual and reproductive health disparities for system-impacted Black girls

pp 116-123

Fourteen - Centering racial justice in the US emergency response framework

pp 124-132

Part V - Housing insecurity

pp 133-134

Fifteen - Affordable housing in America: a matter of availability, access, and accountability

pp 135-141

Sixteen - Shelter from the storm: a framework for housing and climate justice

pp 142-150

Part VI - Looking forward

pp 151-152

Seventeen - Social problems in the age of culture wars

pp 153-163