ABSTRACT
This chapter begins with a brief overview of the early scholarship related to race, crime, and conflict theory. It then reviews the development of conflict criminology as it has been applied to race from the 1960s to 1990s. Towards the end of the 1920s, eminent criminologist Thorsten Sellin addressed the issue of crime in the African American community. Even before Thorsten Sellin officially formulated culture conflict theory in 1938, scholars had begun to consider the role of racial heterogeneity in the etiology of crime and delinquency. George Vold's group conflict theory, Chambliss's seminal sociology of law analysis, Turk's theory of criminalization, Quinney's social reality of crime, and Wacquant's Deadly Symbiosis are also discussed. In 2005, John Hagan, Wenona Rymond-Richmond, and Patricia Parker took the conflict theory, race, and crime literature in a new direction, with their analysis of genocide in the African region of Darfur, Sudan.
