ABSTRACT
A comprehensive collection of the essential writings on race and crime, this important Reader spans more than a century and clearly demonstrates the long-standing difficulties minorities have faced with the justice system. The editors skillfully draw on the classic work of such thinkers as W.E.B. DuBois and Gunnar Myrdal as well as the contemporary work of scholars such as Angela Davis, Joan Petersilia, John Hagen and Robert Sampson. This anthology also covers all of the major topics and issues from policing, courts, drugs and urban violence to inequality, racial profiling and capital punishment. This is required reading for courses in criminology and criminal justice, legal studies, sociology, social work and race.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
part |35 pages
Race and Crime: Early Writings
part |59 pages
Race, Crime, and the Disproportionality Debate
chapter 6|17 pages
Changing Conceptions of Race
chapter 8|9 pages
Race, Conventional Crime, and Criminal Justice
part |77 pages
Women, Race, and Crime
chapter 10|14 pages
The Image of Black Women in Criminology
part |67 pages
Race, Crime, and Communities
part |60 pages
Explaining Race and Violent Crime
chapter 18|13 pages
Revisiting the Scarface Legacy
chapter 19|10 pages
An Analysis of American Indian Homicide
part |63 pages
Race, Crime, and Punishment