ABSTRACT
This introduction presents an overview of the key concepts discussed in the subsequent chapters of this book. The book explains criminology to address its history of excising race from the discipline by engaging with issues of race and criminal justice in their proper dispersion. Its purpose is therefore to provide criminologists with a set of tools to engage with the mutual constructions of race, criminal justice and criminology. Criminology is a rendezvous discipline. The book proposes that most, if not all, criminological issues take form among a broader range of socio-economic and political factors. It therefore borrows and blends concepts from law, sociology, anthropology, politics, journalism, psychology, urban planning, economics, social work and a range of other disciplines in order to account for these complex issues. The process of excising race from criminology also affects the way criminologists construct racialized problems and solutions.
