Race, Crime, and Justice: A Reader

by Gabbidon; Shaun L

• ISBN13: 9780415947060
• ISBN10: 0415947065
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2005-02-21
• Publisher: Routledge

Summary

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 punishment. This is required reading for courses in criminology and criminal justice, legal studies, sociology, social work and race.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments	ix
Preface	xi
Race and Crime: Early Writings	1	(36)
1 The Spawn of Slavery: The Convict-Lease System in the South	3	(6)
W.E.B. Du Bois
2 Social Factors in Oriental Crime	9	(8)
Norman S. Hayner
3 Variability in the Criminal Behavior of American Indians	17	(8)
Norman S. Hayner
4 Lynching and the Status Quo	25	(12)
Oliver C. Cox
Race, Crime, and the Disproportionality Debate	37	(60)
5 On the Racial Disproportionality of United States' Prison Populations	39	(16)
Alfred Blumstein
6 Changing Conceptions of Race: Toward an Account of Anomalous Findings of Sentencing Research	55	(18)
Ruth D. Peterson and John Hagan
7 My Black Crime Problem, and Ours	73	(14)
John J. DiLulio, Jr.
8 Race, Conventional Crime, and Criminal Justice: The Declining Importance of Skin Color	87	(10)
Matt DeLisi and Robert Regoli
Women, Race, and Crime	97	(78)
9 The Criminality of the Colored Woman	101	(26)
Hans von Hentig
10 The Image of Black Women in Criminology: Historical Stereotypes as Theoretical Foundation	127	(14)
Jacklyn Huey and Michael J Lynch
11 Up It Up: Gender and the Accomplishment of Street Robbery	141	(20)
Jody Miller
12 Sociodemographic Predictors and Cultural Barriers to Help-Seeking Behavior by Latina and Anglo American Battered Women	161	(14)
Carolyn M. West, Glenda Kaufman Kantor, and Jana L. Jasinski
Race, Crime, and Communities	175	(68)
13 Toward a Theory of Race, Crime, and Urban Inequality	177	(14)
Robert J. Sampson and William Julius Wilson
14 Race and Place: The Ecology of Racial Profiling African American Motorists	191	(22)
Albert J. Meehan and Michael C. Ponder
15 Crime and Racial Profiling by U.S. Police: Is There an Empirical Basis?	213	(14)
Jared Taylor and Glayde Whitney
16 Defending the Color Line: Racially and Ethnically Motivated Hate Crime	227	(16)
Barbara Perry
Explaining Race and Violent Crime	243	(60)
17 Black and White Homicide Differentials: Alternatives to an Inadequate Theory	245	(18)
Darnell F. Hawkins
18 Revisiting the Scarface Legacy: The Victim/Offender Relationship and Mariel Homicides in Miami	263	(14)
Ramiro Martinez, Jr., Matthew T. Lee, and Amie L. Nielson
19 An Analysis of American Indian Homicide: A Test of Social Disorganization and Economic Deprivation at the Reservation County Level	277	(10)
Ronet Bachman
20 Attitudes toward Marital Violence: An Examination of Four Asian Communities	287	(16)
Marianne R. Yoshioka, Jennifer DiNoia, and Komal Ullah
Race, Crime, and Punishment	303	(64)
21 The Changing Forms of Racial/Ethnic Biases in Sentencing	305	(14)
Marjorie S. Zatz
22 American Indians and Sentencing Disparity: An Arizona Test	319	(14)
Alexander Alvarez and Ronet D. Bachman
23 The New "Peculiar Institution": On the Prison as Surrogate Ghetto	333	(8)
Loic Wacquant
24 Crack-ing Down on Black Drug Offenders? Testing for Interactions among Offenders' Race, Drug Type, and Sentencing Strategy in Federal Drug Sentences	341	(26)
Paula Kautt and Cassia Spohn
Permissions	367	(2)
Index	369