Race, crime, and justice : a reader / / edited by Shaun L. Gabbidon, Helen Taylor Greene

• Pubblicazione: New York : , : Routledge, , 2005
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (394 p.)
• Disciplina: 364.973/089
• Soggetto topico: Crime and race - United States; Discrimination in criminal justice administration - United States
• Altri autori: GabbidonShaun L. <1967-> GreeneHelen Taylor <1949->
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Cover; Race, Crime, and Justice; Title Page; Copyright Page; Dedication; Table of Contents; Acknowledgments; Preface; Race and Crime: Early Writings; 1 The Spawn of Slavery: The Convict-Lease System in the South; 2 Social Factors in Oriental Crime; 3 Variability in the Criminal Behavior of American Indians; 4 Lynching and the Status Quo; Race, Crime, and the Disproportionality Debate; 5 On the Racial Disproportionality of United States' Prison Populations; 6 Changing Conceptions of Race: Toward an Account of Anomalous Findings of Sentencing Research; 7 My Black Crime Problem, and Ours ; 8 Race, Conventional Crime, and Criminal Justice: The Declining Importance of Skin ColorWomen, Race, and Crime; 9 The Criminality of the Colored Woman; 10 The Image of Black Women in Criminology: Historical Stereotypes as Theoretical Foundation; 11 Up It Up: Gender and the Accomplishment of Street Robbery; 12 Sociodemographic Predictors and Cultural Barriers to Help-Seeking Behavior by Latina and Anglo American Battered Women; Race, Crime, and Communities; 13 Toward a Theory of Race, Crime, and Urban Inequality; 14 Race and Place: The Ecology of Racial Profiling African American Motorists ; 15 Crime and Racial Profiling by U.S. Police: Is There an Empirical Basis?16 Defending the Color Line: Racially and Ethnically Motivated Hate Crime; Explaining Race and Violent Crime; 17 Black and White Homicide Differentials: Alternatives to an Inadequate Theory; 18 Revisiting the Scarface Legacy: The Victim/Offender Relationship and Mariel Homicides in Miami; 19 An Analysis of American Indian Homicide: A Test of Social Disorganization and Economic Deprivation at the Reservation County Level; 20 Attitudes toward Marital Violence: An Examination of Four Asian Communities ; Race, Crime, and Punishment21 The Changing Forms of Racial/Ethnic Biases in Sentencing; 22 American Indians and Sentencing Disparity: An Arizona Test; 23 The New ""Peculiar Institution"": On the Prison as Surrogate Ghetto; 24 Crack-ing Down on Black Drug Offenders? Testing for Interactions among Offenders' Race, Drug Type, and Sentencing Strategy in Federal Drug Sentences; Permissions; Index
• Sommario/riassunto: 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
• Titolo autorizzato: Race, crime, and justice
• ISBN: 1-135-39863-1; 0-415-94707-3; 0-203-95504-8; 1-135-39856-9
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910812775003321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II