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Unequal crime decline : theorizing race, urban inequality, and criminal violence / / Karen F. Parker



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Autore: Parker Karen F Visualizza persona
Titolo: Unequal crime decline : theorizing race, urban inequality, and criminal violence / / Karen F. Parker Visualizza cluster
Pubblicazione: New York, : New York University Press, c2008
Edizione: 1st ed.
Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (176 p.)
Disciplina: 364.2/560973
Soggetto topico: Crime - United States - Sociological aspects
Crime and race - United States
Criminal statistics - United States
Urban violence - United States
Social indicators - United States
Violent crimes - United States
Soggetto geografico: United States Social conditions
United States Economic conditions
Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references (p. 135-158) and index.
Nota di contenuto: Introduction -- The difference race and gender makes : a detailed look at violent crime and the crime drop -- Structural perspectives on crime and their critics -- Racial stratification and the local urban economy -- Race, urban inequality, and the changing nature of violence : an illustration of theoretical integration -- Conclusion.
Sommario/riassunto: 2009 Choice Outstanding Academic TitleCrime in most urban areas has been falling since 1991. While the decline has been well-documented, few scholars have analyzed which groups have most benefited from the crime decline and which are still on the frontlines of violence—and why that might be. In Unequal Crime Decline, Karen F. Parker presents a structural and theoretical analysis of the various factors that affect the crime decline, looking particularly at the past three decades and the shifts that have taken place, and offers original insight into which trends have declined and why.Taking into account such indicators as employment, labor market opportunities, skill levels, housing, changes in racial composition, family structure, and drug trafficking, Parker provides statistics that illustrate how these factors do or do not affect urban violence, and carefully considers these factors in relation to various crime trends, such as rates involving blacks, whites, but also trends among black males, white females, as well as others. Throughout the book she discusses popular structural theories of crime and their limitations, in the end concentrating on today’s issues and important contemporary policy to be considered. Unequal Crime Decline is a comprehensive and theoretically sophisticated look at the relationship among race, urban inequality, and violence in the years leading up to and following America’s landmark crime drop.
Titolo autorizzato: Unequal crime decline  Visualizza cluster
ISBN: 0-8147-6849-0
0-8147-6772-9
Formato: Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
Record Nr.: 9910813640003321
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