Race, Crime and Resistance

1. Auflage 2011
ISBN: 978-1-84920-399-9
Verlag: SAGE Publications Ltd

Buch, Englisch, 208 Seiten, Format (B × H): 170 mm x 244 mm, Gewicht: 369 g

In a post-Macpherson, post-9/11 world, criminal justice agencies are adapting their responses to criminal behaviour across diverse ethnic groups. Race, Crime and Resistance draws on contemporary theory and a range of case studies to consider racial inequalities within the criminal justice system and related organisations.

Exploring the mechanisms of discrimination and exclusion, the book goes beyond superficial assumptions to examine the ensuing processes of mobilisation and resistance across disadvantaged groups. Empirically grounded and theoretically informed, the book critically unpicks the persisting concepts of race and ethnicity in the perceptions and representations of crime.

Articulate and sensitive, the book clarifies complex ideas through the use of chapter summaries, case studies, further reading and study questions. It is essential reading for students and scholars of criminology, race and ethnicity, and sociology.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Patel, Tina G

Tyrer, David

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Ethnologie | Volkskunde Volkskunde
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Spezielle Soziologie Kriminalsoziologie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction: Constructing the Race-Crime Problem

Racialised others and the roots of a racist rationale

The problem with racialised constructions of crime

Racial profiling in a post-Macpherson era

Discourse, method, race, crime and resistance

Book structure and content

Crime Science?

The presentation of black criminality

Science, genetics and racial profiling

Questioning 'race talk'

The Politics of Hate

Contextualising the politics of hate

I hate you so much right now: affect and hate

From the centre to the margins … and back again

Policing Racism or Policing Race?

Strained relations and Macpherson

Black people within police environments: custody and career

Learning lessons from Macpherson?

Courtin' Justice

Racial bias and the tipping of Portia's scales

Fair courtroom personnel, fair courtroom justice?

Beyond the docks

Proportionate Punishment?

Situating disciplinary racism

Reproducing racial boundaries

Control racism and punishment

Sovereignty and asylum detention

Victims' Rights and the Challenge of Discrimination

Resistance and collective mobilisation

Rethinking political identities

Unsettling traditional modes of politics

Forms of Resistance

Contextualising race and resistance

Discourse, racism, essentialism and anti-essentialism

Muslim resistance: from Rushdie to the Danish cartoon protests

Researching the Agenda

Generating knowledge on race and crime

Barriers in researching race matters

Presenting accurate and meaningful data

Conclusion: Re-Constructing Race and Crime

Reconsidering 'scientific' racism

The question of races

Biopolitics

Racialised governmentality and the legacy of institutional racism

Resistance

Über Autor(innen)

Patel, Tina G
Dr Tina G. Patel is a senior lecturer in Criminology at the University of Salford. Tina’s research and teaching interests relate to race/racism, surveillance, crime, and discrimination in the criminal justice system. Tina specialises in undertaking qualitative research with excluded communities, who have often been presented as problematic and deviant. Tina has a number of publications in these areas, and is co-author of Race, Crime and Resistance (2011), and sole-author of Race and Society (2017), both published by Sage.