Class, Race, Gender, and Crime: The Social Realities of Justice in America by Gregg Barak (Author) delves into the intricate intersections of social realities that shape our understanding of crime and justice in contemporary American society. This fifth edition, published on March 15, 2018, offers a comprehensive exploration through four key lenses—class, race, gender, and their intersections. The book maintains its structured format from previous editions, with consistent headings for each category, ensuring a systematic examination of how power and privilege influence crime and justice.

Updated throughout, this edition includes fresh examples, current data, and the latest theoretical developments. Notable additions cover police violence and the Black Lives Matter movement, immigration, and queer criminology. With 344 pages, it serves as both a scholarly resource and a critical tool for understanding the complex social dynamics at play in America’s criminal justice system.

For instructors, this book is accompanied by valuable ancillary materials such as an Instructor’s Manual and a Test Bank. The manual provides chapter outlines, summaries, and project suggestions, while the Test Bank includes multiple-choice, true-false, fill-in-the-blank, short-answer, and essay questions for each chapter.