NCJ Number
160017
Date Published
1994
Length
37 pages
Annotation
This chapter considers broad philosophical and academic underpinnings of multiculturalism in criminal justice.
Abstract
The chapter discusses the relevance of multiculturalism to criminal justice, requisite definitions, cross-cultural perceptions including stereotypes and multicultural identity development, the philosophy of multiculturalism, models of cross-cultural service delivery, and a method for examining behavior in the cross-cultural context. The discussion is based on information from various behavioral science disciplines, which is then applied to examples from the criminal justice field. Multicultural training is particularly important in criminal justice because of the melting pot ideals that underlie the American system of justice and because of the high concentration of diverse cultural groups in the U.S. criminal justice system. 115 references