Valerie Jenness
Making an Impact Through Her Books
Valerie Jenness is the Professor and the Dean of the University of California, Irvine. She had been offered the position of a Dean in School of Social Ecology. Before being the Dean she was the Professor in the Department of Criminology, Law and Society and the Department of Sociology. She has also been a research scholar who had sincerely researched on the several fields, especially those that have been lying untouched previously. They must have been neglected all because the society is prejudiced enough and is quite nervous to face the challenges that will be thrown toward them.
The topic that she has undertaken in her research work are prostitution, the injustices meted out to the prisoners of the correctional facilities, hate crimes and its fearful impact on the society. Dean Valerie Jenness Works Hard for Social Change all through her professional career. You should know that she is not just a research scholar and a professor but also an author. She has written several books with are related to her research works.
Most of these books are aimed at informing the society about the problems that are prevalent and the reasons that are leading to it. Some of the books that have been written by her have been enlisted below:
Making it Work: The Movement in Perspective
Prostitutes’
Rights
Making Hate a Crime: From Social Movement to Law Enforcement with Ryken Grattet
Routing the Opposition: Social Movements, Public Policy, and Democracy Appealing to Justice: Prisoner Grievances, Rights, and Carceral Logic with Kitty Calavita Hate Crimes: From Social Movements and the Politics of Violence with Kendal Broad
Her book Appealing to Justice concentrates on informing the people about the conditions that prevail inside the prison. If you read the book you will come to know the California State Prison has as much as thirty three prisons. However, all of them are over-populated. Overpopulation causes poses several problems for the prisoners. They are not given proper medical facilities. Sometimes overstuffing leads to the theft of their personal properties.
The prisoners are entitled to complain against these conditions and to demand for a change. They can do this by filing a grievance. However, the grievances are passed through long review system. The prolonged review system takes up a lot of time causing the prisoners to lose hope in the review system. The book of Valerie Jenness informs that the petitions are rejected by the review system most of the times. Thus, the prisoners have no choice but to survive in these unjust circumstances. Teaching Career Of Valerie Jenness have been quite impactful.