Race, crime, and justice : a reader / edited by Shaun L. Gabbidon, Helen Taylor Greene.

Other author Gabbidon, Shaun L., 1967-
Other author Greene, Helen Taylor, 1949-
Format Book
Publication InfoNew York : Routledge, 2005.
Descriptionxiii, 379 pages ; 26 cm
Supplemental ContentTable of contents only
Supplemental ContentPublisher description
Subjects
Crime and race--United States.
Discrimination in criminal justice administration--United States.

Contents Race and crime : early writings -- 1. The spawn of slavery : the convict-lease system in the South / W.E.B. Du Bois -- 2. Social factors in Oriental crime / Norman S. Hayner -- 3. Variability in the criminal behavior of American Indians / Norman S. Hayner -- 4. Lynching and the status quo / Oliver C. Cox -- Race, crime, and the disproportionality debate -- 5. On racial disproportionality of United States' prison populations / Alfred Blumstein -- 6. Changing conceptions of race : toward an account of anomalous findings of sentencing research / Ruth D. Peterson, John Hagan -- 7. My Black crime problem, and ours / John J. DiIulio, Jr. -- 8. Race, conventional crime, and criminal justice : the declining importance of skin color / Matt DeLisi, Robert Regoli -- Women, race, and crime -- 9. The criminality of the colored woman / Hans von Hentig -- 10. The image of Black women in criminology : historical stereotypes as theoretical foundation / Jacklyn Huey, Michael J. Lynch -- 11. Up it up : gender and the accomplishment of street robbery / Jody Miller -- 12. Sociodemographic predictors and cultural barriers to help-seeking behavior by Latina and Anglo American battered women / Carolyn M. West, Glenda Kaufman Kantor, Jana L. Jasinski -- Race, crime, and communities -- 13. Toward a theory of race, crime, and urban inequality / Robert J. Sampson, William Julius Wilson -- 14. Race and place : the ecology of racial profiling African American motorists / Albert J. Meehan, Michael C. Ponder -- 15. Crime and racial profiling by U.S. police : is there an empirical basis? / Jared Taylor, Glayde Whitney -- 16. Defending the color line : racially and ethnically motivated hate crime / Barbara Perry -- Explaining race and violent crimes -- 17. Black and white homicide differentials : alternatives to an inadequate theory / Darnell F. Hawkins -- 18. Revisiting the Scarface legacy : the victim/offender relationship and Mariel homicides in Miami / Ramiro Martinez, Jr., Matthew T. Lee, Amie L. Nielson -- 19. An analysis of American Indian homicide : a test of social disorganization and economic deprivation at the reservation county level / Ronet Bachman -- 20. Attitudes towards marital violence : an examination of four Asian communities / Marianne R. Yoshioka, Jennifer DiNoia, Komal Ullah -- Race, crime and punishment -- 21. The changing forms of racial/ethnic biases in sentencing / Marjorie S. Zatz -- 22. American Indians and sentencing disparity : an Arizona test / Alexander Alvarez, Ronet D. Bachman -- 23. The new "peculiar institution" : on the prison as surrogate ghetto / Loïc Wacquant -- 24. Crack-ing down on Black drug offenders? : testing for interactions among offenders' race, drug type, and sentencing strategy in federal drug sentences / Paula Kautt, Cassia Spohn.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references and index.
LCCN 2004016598
ISBN0415947065 (hardback : alk. paper)
ISBN9780415947060 (hardback : alk. paper)
ISBN0415947073 (pbk. : alk. paper)
ISBN9780415947077 (pbk. : alk. paper)

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