Criminological Perspectives on Race and Crime

4th Auflage
ISBN: 978-0-367-33233-4
Verlag: Taylor & Francis

Buch, Englisch, 332 Seiten, Format (B × H): 152 mm x 229 mm, Gewicht: 449 g

Reihe: Criminology and Justice Studies

Criminological Perspectives on Race and Crime, Fourth Edition, is the only text to look at the array of mainstream and unconventional explanations for crime as they relate to racial and ethnic populations.

Each chapter begins with a historical review of each theoretical perspective and how its original formulation and more recent derivatives account for racial or ethnic differences in offending. Included in each chapter is a review of relevant empirical tests that have investigated the value of that theory. The theoretical paradigms include those based on religion, biology, social disorganization/strain, subculture, labeling, conflict, social control, colonial, feminism, and race-centered perspectives. Gabbidon considers which perspectives have shown the most promise in explaining the relationships between race/ethnicity and crime.

Ideal for courses in either crime theory or race and crime, this text is used in Criminology and Sociology programs in the US as well as in the UK and Canada.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Gabbidon, Shaun L

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziale Gruppen/Soziale Themen Gewalt und Diskriminierung: Soziale Aspekte
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziologie Allgemein
• Sozialwissenschaften Ethnologie | Volkskunde Volkskunde Minderheiten, Interkulturelle & Multikulturelle Fragen
• Rechtswissenschaften Strafrecht Kriminologie, Strafverfolgung
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Spezielle Soziologie Kriminalsoziologie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Preface; Acknowledgments; 1. A Brief Introduction to Race, Crime, and Theory; 2. Biological Perspectives on Race and Crime; 3. Social Disorganization and Strain Perspectives on Race and Crime; 4. Subcultural Perspectives on Race and Crime; 5. Labeling Perspectives on Race and Crime; 6. Conflict Perspectives on Race and Crime; 7. Social Control Perspectives on Race and Crime; 8. Colonial Perspectives on Race and Crime; 9. Gender and Race-Centered Perspectives on Race and Crime; 10. Conclusion; Index

Über Autor(innen)

Shaun L. Gabbidon, Ph.D., is Distinguished Professor of Criminal Justice at Penn State Harrisburg. He has also served as a fellow at Harvard University’s W.E.B. Du Bois Institute for Afro-American Research, and has taught at the Center for Africana Studies at the University of Pennsylvania. Professor Gabbidon is the author of more than 100 scholarly publications including more than 70 peer-reviewed articles and 12 books. Professor Gabbidon can be contacted at [e-mail].