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Relying on experts in criminology and sociology, Appearance Bias and Crime describes the role of bias against citizens based on their physical appearance. From the point of suspicion to the decisions to arrest, convict, sentence, and apply the death penalty, crime control agents are influenced by the appearance of offenders; moreover, victims of crime are held blameworthy depending on their physical appearance. The editor and contributing authors discuss timely topics such as Black Lives Matter, terrorism, LGBTQ appearance, human trafficking, Indigenous appearance, the disabled, and the attractive versus unattractive among us. Demographic traits such as race, gender, age, and social class influence physical appearance and, thus, judgments about criminal involvement and victimization. This volume describes the social movements relevant to appearance bias, recommends legislative and policy changes, offers practical advice to social control agencies on how to reduce appearance bias, and proposes a new sub-discipline of appearance criminology.

Criminal anthropology. --- Physical-appearance based bias. --- Criminal behavior, Prediction of. --- Discrimination in criminal justice administration. --- Race discrimination in criminal justice administration --- Criminal justice, Administration of --- Criminal offender profiling --- Criminal profiling --- Delinquency prediction --- Offender profiling --- Prediction of criminal behavior --- Profiling, Criminal --- Criminal psychology --- Prediction (Psychology) --- Crime forecasting --- Criminal profilers --- Appearance-based bias --- Appearance-based discrimination --- Appearance bias --- Appearance discrimination --- Body-size bias --- Look-ism --- Lookism --- Looks-ism --- Looksism --- Physical appearance discrimination --- Size bias, Body --- Size discrimination --- Sizeism --- Sizism --- Discrimination --- Anthropology, Criminal --- Criminal anthropometry --- Anthropometry

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Winner, Body and Embodiment Award presented by the American Sociological Association Imagine yourself without a face—the task seems impossible. The face is a core feature of our physical identity. Our face is how others identify us and how we think of our ‘self’. Yet, human faces are also functionally essential as mechanisms for communication and as a means of eating, breathing, and seeing. For these reasons, facial disfigurement can endanger our fundamental notions of self and identity or even be life threatening, at worse. Precisely because it is so difficult to conceal our faces, the disfigured face compromises appearance, status, and, perhaps, our very way of being in the world. In Saving Face, sociologist Heather Laine Talley examines the cultural meaning and social significance of interventions aimed at repairing faces defined as disfigured. Using ethnography,participant-observation, content analysis, interviews, and autoethnography, Talley explores four sites in which a range of faces are “repaired:” face transplantation, facial feminization surgery, the reality show Extreme Makeover, and the international charitable organization Operation Smile. Throughout, she considers how efforts focused on repair sometimes intensify the stigma associated with disfigurement. Drawing upon experiences volunteering at a camp for children with severe burns, Talley also considers alternative interventions and everyday practices that both challenge stigma and help those seen as disfigured negotiate outsider status.Talley delves into the promise and limits of facial surgery, continually examining how we might understand appearance as a facet of privilege and a dimension of inequality. Ultimately, she argues that facial work is not simply a conglomeration of reconstructive techniques aimed at the human face, but rather, that appearance interventions are increasingly treated as lifesaving work. Especially at a time when aesthetic technologies carrying greater risk are emerging and when discrimination based on appearance is rampant, this important book challenges us to think critically about how we see the human face.

SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / General. --- MEDICAL / Dermatology. --- SOCIAL SCIENCE / Sociology / General. --- Surgery, Plastic --- Physical-appearance-based bias. --- Face --- Disfigured persons. --- Aesthetics --- Beautiful, The --- Beauty --- Esthetics --- Taste (Aesthetics) --- Philosophy --- Art --- Criticism --- Literature --- Proportion --- Symmetry --- Aesthetic surgery --- Cosmetic surgery --- Plastic surgery --- Reconstructive surgery --- Surgery, Aesthetic --- Surgery, Cosmetic --- Surgery, Reconstructive --- Transplantation of organs, tissues, etc. --- Plastic surgeons --- Human face --- Head --- Pathognomy --- Physiognomy --- Appearance-based bias --- Appearance-based discrimination --- Appearance bias --- Appearance discrimination --- Body-size bias --- Look-ism --- Lookism --- Looks-ism --- Looksism --- Physical appearance discrimination --- Size bias, Body --- Size discrimination --- Sizeism --- Sizism --- Discrimination --- Persons --- Social aspects. --- Social asepcts. --- Psychology --- Philosophy and psychology of culture --- Sociology of culture --- Radio broadcasting Aesthetics

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Racism in America is most-commonly studied as white racism against minority groups (racial, gender, cultural). Often overlooked in this area of study is the discrimination that exists within minority groups. Through a detailed historical and sociological analysis, the author breaks down these pernicious, complex, and often misunderstood forms of skin color discrimination: their origins and their manifestations in modern world. Shedding new light on these sensitive issues, this volume will allow them to come to the forefront of academic research and open dialogue. This comprehensive work will include coverage of skin color discrimination within racial, ethnic, sexual, and gender minority groups, and their particular forms and consequences. An Historical Analysis of Skin Color Discrimination is an timely and unique book for researchers studying the Sociology of Race and Racism, Gender Studies, LGBT Studies, Immigration, or Social Work. .

Human skin color -- Social aspects -- United States. --- Minorities -- United States. --- Physical-appearance-based bias -- United States. --- Racism -- United States -- History. --- United States -- Race relations. --- Colorism --- Human skin color --- Racism --- Minorities --- Physical-appearance-based bias --- Sociology & Social History --- Gender & Ethnic Studies --- Anthropology --- Physical Anthropology --- Social Change --- Ethnic & Race Studies --- Social Sciences --- Social aspects --- History --- Social aspects. --- History. --- Appearance-based bias --- Appearance-based discrimination --- Appearance bias --- Appearance discrimination --- Body-size bias --- Look-ism --- Lookism --- Looks-ism --- Looksism --- Physical appearance discrimination --- Size bias, Body --- Size discrimination --- Sizeism --- Sizism --- Color of human beings --- Color of man --- Human beings --- Pigmentation of human skin --- Skin --- Skin color, Human --- Skin pigmentation, Human --- Color --- Social sciences. --- Anthropology. --- Social work. --- Sociology. --- Social Sciences. --- Sociology, general. --- Social Work. --- Discrimination --- Benevolent institutions --- Philanthropy --- Relief stations (for the poor) --- Social service agencies --- Social welfare --- Social work --- Human services --- Social theory --- Social sciences --- United States --- Race relations. --- Race question --- Primitive societies