ch. 1. The commitment to justice -- ch. 2. Fields of inquiry : the intellectual environment of justice studies -- ch. 3. Justice identity in academia -- ch. 4. Toward justice perspective : the development of theory in justice studies -- ch. 5. The methodologies of justice -- ch. 6. Race and ethnicity : understanding the new order in the United States -- ch. 7. Gender and the emergence of feminist perspective -- ch. 8. Ethics and morality : the power to do good; the power to bind and divide -- Conclusion : toward justice.