COMMUNITIES, IDENTITIES AND CRIME -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction -- Criminology in crisis? -- Summary of chapters -- 1. Social identities in late modernity: offender and victim identity constructions -- Introduction -- Modernity -- Late modernity -- Social identities in late modern society -- Social identities in relation to criminal justice and community safety -- Social identities, institutional reflexivity and reflection -- Conclusion -- Chapter questions -- 2. Equality and diversity agendas in criminal justice -- Introduction -- British public sector legislation in relation to promoting equality and reducing discrimination -- Equality and diversity in relation to criminal justice -- Target setting within the criminal justice system and equality provision -- Specificity in relation to equality and diversity -- Invisible social norms that produce oppression and inequality -- Conclusion -- Chapter questions -- 3. Researching identities and communities: key epistemological, methodological and ethical dilemmas -- Introduction -- Identities as constructed out of difference: oppositional binaries in western discourse -- Perspectival realism: a social ontology of fragmentation alongside political engagement -- Identities as multifaceted, situated and transitory -- The wider discipline-related, political and social contexts to researching identities -- Researcher subjectivities and social identities in the documentation of social experience -- Conclusion -- Chapter questions -- 4. Communities and criminal justice: engaging legitimised, project and resistance identities -- Introduction -- Communities as multifaceted and imagined -- Community engagement within criminal justice -- Community representation within criminal justice -- Community as ideology -- Community as consisting of active citizens.

Community as both constituting, and being constituted through, legitimised identities -- Critiquing community participation -- Conclusion -- Chapter questions -- 5. Gender, crime, and criminal justice -- Introduction -- Gender and crime -- Feminists' critiques of criminology -- Female offenders -- Gender and victimisation -- Gender and the fear of crime -- Gender and criminal justice policy and practice -- Women practitioners in the criminal justice system -- Policy, practice and diversity amongst women -- Conclusion -- Chapter questions -- 6. 'Race', crime and criminal justice -- Introduction -- Victimisation and 'race'/ethnic identities -- 'Race and crime': racial discrimination and the criminal justice system -- Minority experiences, knowledge claims and the project of modernity -- Self and discipline reflexivity: 'Race'/ethnicity, crime and criminal justice -- Institutional reflexivity, 'race'/ethnicity and criminal justice -- 'Race'/ethnicity and employees of the criminal justice system -- Conclusion -- Chapter questions -- 7. Faith identities, crime and criminal justice -- Introduction -- Religion, religiosity, spirituality: some key terms -- Secularism and contemporary western societies -- Faith communities in the UK -- Criminology as a secular discipline -- Criminal justice and secular, race relations, approaches -- Criminal justice researchers' and practitioners' engagement with religious/spiritual identities -- Incorporating religiosity and spirituality within criminological knowledge constructions: some key issues -- Engagement with faith communities in a criminal justice/community safety context -- Conclusion -- Chapter questions -- 8. Lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender communities: crime, victimisation and criminal justice -- Introduction -- Lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender minorities and identity constructions.

Lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender minorities and hate crime -- Lesbian and gay minorities and domestic violence -- Researching LGBT communities: criminological knowledge production -- Conclusion -- Chapter questions -- 9. Ageing, disability, criminology and criminal justice -- Introduction -- Ageing and older people -- Disabled people -- Conclusion -- Chapter questions -- Conclusion -- Communities, identities and criminology -- Index.