ABSTRACT
This book examined numerous criminological perspectives that have been used to explain racial and ethnic disparities in crime and justice. After reviewing a plethora of relevant research studies, a few things have become clear. First, no single theory explains racial disparities in crime and justice “at all places and at all times.” Considering the diversity of issues that face people of color and racial and ethnic groups around the world, such an expectation is clearly unrealistic. If nothing more, the review of such scholarship has shown that the generality of a particular theory is diffi cult to achieve. Thus, scholars need to be careful when making such claims.
