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Race and Justice

Race and Justice


eISSN: 21533687 | ISSN: 21533687 | Current volume: 14 | Current issue: 3 Frequency: Quarterly

Race and Justice: An International Journal serves as a quarterly forum for the best scholarship on race, ethnicity, and justice. The journal seeks to engage and promote progressive means of thinking by publishing articles from diverse, inclusive, and intersectional perspectives, theories, methodologies, and ways of knowing. Originally founded in 2011 to highlight policy-oriented papers that examine how race/ethnicity intersects with justice system outcomes across the globe, the journal has evolved and expanded to champion perspectives that examine the construction, as well as deconstruction, of racialized normative beliefs, perspectives, institutions, and structures, from individual identities to state violence.

Specifically, Race and Justice seeks research that does more than treat race as a control variable or makes comparisons between racial and ethnic groups but examines factors through a lens that centers racialized lived experiences and the role of a stratified social structure (particularly racism) as related to criminal behaviors, deviance, violence, victimization, and entanglement with the criminal legal system and other crime-producing institutions.

The journal also seeks intersectional and inclusive scholarship that highlights varied and multiple identities and statuses including, but not limited to, race, ethnicity, nativity, age, religion, gender identity, sexuality, class, ability, non-orthodox identities and experiences, as well as diverse places and spaces. The main focus of the journal is empirical research and theory, but also the promotion of equitable and inclusive polices and evolving best praxis. Thus, the journal is open to scholarship from all disciplinary origins and methodological approaches (qualitative and/or quantitative). Research notes that present novel empirical findings as well as short theoretical commentaries are also welcomed.

In addition to publishing journal articles, Race and Justice serves as a central forum for book reviews. RAJ accepts solicited book reviews only.

Please contact our Book Review Editor, Toniqua Mikell (tmikell@umassd.edu) for additional information about the book review process.

Please send books to be reviewed to Dr. Mikell and/or Dr. Isom at:

Race and Justice: An International Journal
c/o Dr. Toniqua Mikell
Crime & Justice Studies Department
University of Massachusetts Dartmouth
Liberal Arts Building, Room 399C
North Dartmouth, Massachusetts 02747
Race and Justice: An International Journal
c/o Dr. Deena Isom
Department of African American Studies
University of South Carolina
817 Henderson Street
256 Gambrell Hall
Columbia, South Carolina 29208

Race and Justice seeks research that does more than treat race as a control variable or makes comparisons between racial and ethnic groups but examines factors through a lens that centers racialized lived experiences and the role of a stratified social structure (particularly racism) as related to criminal behaviors, deviance, violence, victimization, and entanglement with the criminal legal system and other crime-producing institutions across the globe. The journal also seeks intersectional and inclusive scholarship that highlights varied and multiple identities and statuses including, but not limited to, race, ethnicity, nativity, age, religion, gender identity, sexuality, class, ability, non-orthodox identities and experiences, as well as diverse places and spaces. The main focus of the journal is empirical research and theory, but also the promotion of equitable and inclusive polices and evolving best praxis. Thus, the journal is open to scholarship from all disciplinary origins and methodological approaches (qualitative and/or quantitative).

Editors
Deena Isom University of South Carolina
Book Review Editor
Toniqua Mikell University of Massachusetts Dartmouth, USA
Associate Editors
Jorge Chavez University of Colorado Denver
Miltonette Craig Sam Houston State University
Howard Henderson Texas Southern University
Janice Iwama American University
Nikki Jones University of California Berkeley
Jason Williams Montclair State University
Editorial Board
Ericka Adams San Jose State University
Kwan-Lamar Blount-Hill Arizona State University
Francis Boateng University of Mississippi
Scott Bowman Texas State University
TaLisa Carter American University
Ruchi Chaturvedi University of Cape Town (South Africa)
Elsa Chen Santa Clara University
Johnna Christian Rutgers University, Newark
Shenique S. Davis Thomas City University of New York Borough of Manhattan Community College
Shaun Gabbidon Penn State Harrisburg
Amanda Haynes University of Limerick (Ireland)
George Higgins University of Louisville
Delores Jones-Brown Howard University
Suvi Keskinen University of Helsinki (Finland)
Mijin Kim  Illinois State University
Andrea Leverentz North Carolina State University
Marcello Maneri University of Milano-Bicocca (Italy)
Henrika McCoy University of Texas at Austin
Jennifer Silcox King's University College at Western University (Canada)
Xia Wang Arizona State University
Managing Editor
Hyeseon Noh University of South Carolina
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