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Autore: | Unnever James D. |
Titolo: | A theory of African American offending : race, racism, and crime / / James D. Unnever, Shaun L. Gabbidon |
Pubblicazione: | Hoboken, : Taylor and Francis, 2011 |
Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (289 p.) |
Disciplina: | 364.3/496073 |
364.3496073 | |
Soggetto topico: | Crime and race - United States |
Discrimination in criminal justice administration - United States | |
African Americans | |
African American criminals | |
Soggetto genere / forma: | Electronic books. |
Persona (resp. second.): | GabbidonShaun L. <1967-, > |
Note generali: | Description based upon print version of record. |
Sommario/riassunto: | A little more than a century ago, the famous social scientist W.E.B. Du Bois asserted that a true understanding of African American offending must be grounded in the ""real conditions"" of what it means to be black living in a racial stratified society. Today and according to official statistics, African American men - about six percent of the population of the United States - account for nearly sixty percent of the robbery arrests in the United States. To the authors of this book, this and many other glaring racial disparities in offending centered on African Americans is clearly related t |
Titolo autorizzato: | A theory of African American offending |
ISBN: | 1-283-10386-9 |
9786613103864 | |
0-203-82856-9 | |
Formato: | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
Record Nr.: | 9910459976603321 |
Lo trovi qui: | Univ. Federico II |
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