Crime, Violence and Minority Youths

by Tatum, Becky L.

• ISBN13: 9781840149623
• ISBN10: 1840149620
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 1999-07-01
• Publisher: Ashgate Pub Ltd

Summary

Mainstream criminology has devoted little attention to minority perspectives in crime and violence. Criminologists who have examined minority perspectives have addressed the issue in a cursory manner, providing only brief summaries of the propositions of the perspective. This book provides a comprehensive examination of one minority perspective on crime: the colonial model. Specifically, the book discusses how the colonial model applies to African and Hispanic Americans and what the perspective adds to mainstream theorizing. It further discusses the limitations of the perspective, revises the perspective to improve theoretical validity and subjects the revised perspective to empirical validation. Preliminary findings suggest that the colonial model is more effective in explaining African American delinquency.

Author Biography

Becky Tatum is Assistant Professor of Criminal Justice at Georgia State University. She received her Ph.D. from the School of Criminal Justice at the University at Albany

Table of Contents

List of Figures	vi
List of Tables	viii
Preface	x
Acknowledgments	xiii
Social Structure and Crime	1	(15)
Toward a Neocolonial Model	16	(15)
Colonialism and Mexican Americans	31	(11)
Developing a Research Agenda	42	(24)
The Effects of Race and Class	66	(11)
Pathways to Assimilation and Crime	77	(18)
Theoretical Promise of the Colonial Perspective	95	(5)
References	100	(10)
Bibliography	110	(3)
Index	113	(3)
About the Author	116