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A unique text/reader that provides an overview of both historical and contemporary race and crime issues

This innovative text/reader from pre-eminent authors and researchers Helen Taylor Greene and Shaun Gabbidon combines textual material with recent, carefully edited articles from well-known and emerging scholars. The articles have been published in leading criminology and criminal justice journals, such as Crime & Delinquency, Criminology, Journal of Research in Crime and Delinquency, Justice Quarterly, and Theoretical Criminology . The book explores historical and contemporary issues such as race as a social construct; the treatment of minorities and immigrants in American history; explanations of race and crime; disproportionate arrest, victimization, and confinement; racial profiling; wrongful convictions; and the "War on Drugs."

Tabla de contenidos provista por Syndetics

• Foreword
• Preface and Introduction
• How to Read a Research Article
• Section 1 Overview of Race, Ethnicity and Crime
• Section Highlights
• The Concepts of Race and Ethnicity
• Prejudice and Discrimination
• Race and Crime in American History
• Summary
• Key Terms
• Discussion Questions
• Web Resources
• Readings:
• The History of Native Americans and the Misdirected Study of Organized Crime
• Race as Class
• Marginalized White Ethnicity, Race and Crime
• Section 2 Extent of Crime and Victimization
• Section Highlights
• Sources of Crime and Victimization Statistics
• Limitations of Crime, Arrest, and Victimization Statistics
• Race and the Extent of Crime and Victimization
• Race and Victimization
• Summary
• Key Terms
• Discussion Questions
• Web Resources
• Readings:
• Intimate Partner Homicide: Review and Implications of Research and Policy
• Exploring Bystander Presence and Intervention in Nonfatal Violent Victimization: When Does Helping Really Help?
• Co-offending and the Age-Crime Curve
• Section 3 Theoretical Perspectives on Race and Crime
• Section Highlights
• What Is Theory?
• Biological Theories on Race and Crime
• Sociological Theories on Race and Crime
• Social Disorganization
• Collective Efficacy
• Strain/Anomie Theory
• General Strain Theory
• The Colonial Model
• Summary
• Key Terms
• Discussion Questions
• Web Resources
• Readings:
• Are Hispanics the New "Threat"? Minority Group Threat and Fear of Crime in Miami-Dade County
• Do Theories of Crime or Violence Explain Race Differences in Delinquency?
• a General Strain Theory of Racial Differences in Criminal Offending
• Racial Discriminaton and Hirschi's Criminological Classic: a Chapter in the Sociology of Knowledge
• Section 4 Juvenile Justice
• Section Highlights
• Overview of the Juvenile Justice System
• Race and Juvenile Justice
• Race, Juvenile Crime, and Victimization
• Delinquency Prevention
• Summary
• Key Terms
• Discussion Questions
• Web Resources
• Readings:
• Disproportionate Minority Confinement of Juveniles: a National Examination of Black-White Disparity in Placements, 1997-2006
• Things Are Tough All Over: Race, Ethnicity, Class, and School Discipline
• The Provision and Completion of Gender-Specific Services for Girls on Probation: Variation by Race and Ethnicity
• Section 5 Policing
• Section Highlights
• Overview of Policing in America
• History of Policing
• Race and Policing
• Contemporary Issues in Race and Policing
• Racial Profiling
• Summary
• Key Terms
• Discussion Questions
• Web Resources
• Readings:
• An Inquiry Into the Impact of Suspect Race on Police Use of Tasers
• Lessons of the Street Code: Policy Implications for Reducing Violent Victimization Among Disadvantaged Citizens
• Racial Bias in Case Processing: Does Victim Race Affect Police Clearance of Violent Crime Incidents?
• Section 6 Courts and Sentencing
• Section Highlights
• Overview of American Courts and Sentencing
• Contemporary Issues on Race and Courts
• Contemporary Issues in Race and Sentencing
• Summary
• Key Terms
• Discussion Questions
• Web Resources
• Readings:
• Race-Based Judgments, Race-Neutral Justifications: Experimental Examination of Peremptory Use and the Batson Challenge Procedure
• Race Effects of Representation Among Federal Court Workers: Does Black Workforce Representation Reduce Sentencing Disparities?
• Punishing the "Model Minority": Asian-American Criminal Sentencing Outcomes in Federal District Courts
• Section 7 The Death Penalty
• Section Highlights
• Overview of Race and the Death Penalty
• Significant Death Penalty Cases
• Current Statistics on the Death Penalty
• Public Opinion and the Death Penalty
• Wrongful Convictions
• Summary
• Key Terms
• Discussion Questions
• Web Resources
• Readings:
• Hispanics and the Death Penalty: Discriminatory Charging Practices in San Joaquin County, California
• Governing Through Crime as Commonsense Racism: Race, Space, and Death Penalty "Reform" in Delaware
• Persuasion and Resistance: Race and the Death Penalty in America
• Section 8 Corrections
• Section Highlights
• Overview of Corrections
• Race and Corrections in Historical Context
• Racial Disparities in Corrections
• Prisoner Reentry
• Summary
• Key Terms
• Discussion Questions
• Web Resources
• Readings:
• The Racialization of Crime and Punishment: Criminal Justice, Color-Blind Racism, and the Political Economy of the Prison Industrial Complex
• The Role of Offender Risk Assessment: a Policy Maker Guide
• The Black Family and Mass Incarceration
• Glossary
• Appendix: Race and Crime Timeline
• Credits and Sources
• References
• Index
• About the Authors

Notas de autor provistas por Syndetics

Helen Taylor Greene is Professor of Administration of Justice in the Barbara Jordan-Mickey Leland School of Public Affairs (SPA) at Texas Southern University (TSU). She completed her BS in Sociology at Howard University, her MS in the Administration of Justice at American University, and both her MA in Political Science and PhD in Criminology at the University of Maryland, College Park. Her areas of research include race and crime, juvenile justice, and policing. She has authored and co-authored books, has peer-reviewed articles and book chapters, and has served as lead editor for the Encyclopedia of Race and Crime (2009).

Shaun L. Gabbidon is Distinguished Professor of Criminal Justice in the School of Public Affairs at Penn State Harrisburg. He earned his PhD in Criminology at Indiana University of Pennsylvania. Dr. Gabbidon has served as a fellow at Harvard University's W. E. B. Du Bois Institute for Afro-American Research and as an adjunct faculty member in the Center for Africana Studies at the University of Pennsylvania. His areas of interest include race and crime, criminal justice and criminology pedagogy, and private security. Professor Gabbidon is the author of more than 100 scholarly publications, including 60 peer-reviewed articles and 11 books.