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LGBT Issues and Criminal Justice Education

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This chapter reviews the state of the literature regarding college students’ attitudes toward LGBT individuals, and then narrows that focus to discuss criminal justice majors in particular. The status of criminal justice education on LBGT issues is discussed, with particular attention to why such issues are important for undergraduate criminal justice education. The authors suggest a paradigm for inclusion of such issues in criminal justice curriculum globally, modeled after the decision to include race and gender issues in that same curriculum.

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  1. Department of Sociology and Criminal Justice Studies, Southern Illinois University Edwardsville, P.O. Box 1455, Edwardsville, IL, 62026, USA

    Kevin Cannon, P. Ann Dirks-Linhorst, P. Denise Cobb & Florence Maatita

  2. Criminal Justice Studies and Women’s and Gender Program, Illinois State University, Campus Box 5250, Normal, IL, 61790, USA

    Dawn Beichner

  3. Criminology and Criminal Justice, University of Nebraska at Omaha, Omaha, NE, 68182, USA

    Robbin Ogle

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Cannon, K., Dirks-Linhorst, P.A., Cobb, P.D., Maatita, F., Beichner, D., Ogle, R. (2014). LGBT Issues and Criminal Justice Education. In: Peterson, D., Panfil, V. (eds) Handbook of LGBT Communities, Crime, and Justice. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4614-9188-0_13

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