We find this problematic based on our general rejection of any privilege-based inequalities. However, it is also troubling in regard to the larger intellectual project of criminology. As we have argued in preceding sections of this article, by ignoring issues of gender and race, early American criminology was crucially flawed as it was untethered from the totality of experiences lived by the people in those communities being scrutinized. Following the same logic, we might also acknowledge that a contemporary American criminology is equally untethered from those experiences if it does not include within the field those that are most affected by crime and the CJS. The academy may look less like a boys’ club today, but if it retains a glass ceiling and only admits Whites, our ability to study and ameliorate the effects of crime and punitive control will remain severely limited.