African American Classics in Criminology and Criminal Justice

by Shaun L Gabbidon

• ISBN13: 9780761924333
• ISBN10: 0761924337
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2001-09-27
• Publisher: SAGE Publications, Inc

Summary

"This collection of writings is crucially important, in part, because it reminds us the theoretical paradigms of these and other African American scholars are excluded when crime, its causes, and its control are discussed by criminologists, criminal justice practitioners, and policy makers. To understand crime fully, the perspectives advanced by these scholars must become an integral part of discussions about who is a criminal and which public policies will best control crime." --From the forward by Anne Thomas Sulton, Ph.D, J.D. From W.E.B. Dubois through Lee Brown, this anthology provides a collection of the key articles in criminology and criminal justice written by black scholars. Available in a single volume for the first time, the articles collected in this book reflect the voices of African-American scholars and display the diversity of perspectives sought after in today's academic community. Crime in the African-American community is examined from social, economic and political perspectives, and the historical context of each article is provided by the editors. Spanning the 20th century, these works present a historical chronology of African-American views on crime and its control with theoretical perspectives that have often been tangential to mainstream scholarship. For your courses in: Criminological Theory Race and Crime Crime and Social Policy Minorities and Criminal Justice

Table of Contents

Foreword	ix
Anne Thomas Sulton
Introduction	xi
Pedagogical Reconstruction: Incorporating African American Perspectives Into the Curriculum	1	(20)
Vernetta D. Young
Helen Taylor Greene
PART I: HISTORICAL CLASSICS
Southern Horrors: Lynch Law in All Its Phases	21	(18)
Ida B. Wells-Barnett
The Negro Criminal	39	(28)
W. E. B. Du Bois
Crime Among the Negroes of Chicago: A Social Study	67	(14)
Monroe N. Work
The Spawn of Slavery: The Convict-Lease System in the South	81	(8)
W. E. B. Du Bois
Negro Criminality in the South	89	(8)
Monroe N. Work
Rebellious Youth	97	(12)
E. Franklin Frazier
Community Factors in Negro Delinquency	109	(10)
Earl R. Moses
Differentials in Crime Rates Between Negroes and Whites, Based on Comparisons of Four Socio-Economically Equated Areas	119	(16)
Earl R. Moses
PART II: CONTEMPORARY CLASSICS
Unequal Justice in the State Criminal Justice System	135	(24)
A. Leon Higginbotham, Jr.
White Racism, Black Crime, and American Justice: An Application of the Colonial Model to Explain Crime and Race	159	(10)
Robert Staples
Women, Race, and Crime	169	(8)
Vernetta D. Young
Beyond Anomalies: Rethinking the Conflict Perspective on Race and Criminal Punishment	177	(22)
Darnell F. Hawkins
Devalued Lives and Racial Stereotypes: Ideological Barriers to the Prevention of Family Violence Among Blacks	199	(14)
Darnell F. Hawkins
Community Policing: A Practical Guide for Police Officials	213	(14)
Lee P. Brown
Race, Ethnicity, and the Spatial Dynamic: Toward a Realistic Study of Black Crime, Crime Victimization, and Criminal Justice Processing of Blacks	227	(16)
Daniel E. Georges-Abeyie
Black Males and Social Problems: Prevention Through Afrocentric Socialization	243	(18)
William Oliver
Minority and Female: A Criminal Justice Double Bind	261	(18)
Coramae Richey Mann
Development of a Black Criminology and the Role of the Black Criminologist	279	(14)
Katheryn K. Russell
The Code of the Streets	293	(14)
Elijah Anderson
The Colonial Model as a Theoretical Explanation of Crime and Delinquency	307	(16)
Becky Tatum
Racially Based Jury Nullification: Black Power in the Criminal Justice System	323	(26)
Paul Butler
The Racial Hoax as Crime: The Law as Affirmation	349	(28)
Katheryn K. Russell
Index	377	(18)
About the Editors	395	(2)
About the Contributors	397