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9780813320144

Poverty, Ethnicity, And Violent Crime

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    9780813320144

  • ISBN10:

    0813320143

  • Format: Nonspecific Binding
  • Copyright: 1997-04-04
  • Publisher: Routledge

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Summary

Violent crime in America is more strongly associated with poverty and with changing social and economic conditions than with race or ethnicity, and patterns of violence are changing. These are among the conclusions ofPoverty, Ethnicity, and Violent Crime,a searching analysis that draws on scholarly research from all the social and behavioral sciences. By framing his analysis in terms of different levels of explanation, James Short is able to identify fundamental causal conditions and processes that result in violent crime. The book also examines current policies and political and scholarly controversies concerning the control of violent crime. This book can serve as a text or as supplementary reading for a variety of criminology courses.

Author Biography

James F. Short, Jr., is professor emeritus in the Department of Sociology at Washington State University at Pullman.

Table of Contents

Forewordp. ix
Prefacep. xi
Introductionp. 1
Measuring Violent Crime: Trends and Social Distributionsp. 12
""Levels of Explanation"" of Violent Crimep. 37
Community and Neighborhood Contexts of Violent Crimep. 49
The Role of Unsupervised Youth Groups in Violencep. 75
Levels of Explanation of Violent Behavior Committed in Groupsp. 100
Explaining Violent Crime: The Macrosocial Level of Explanationp. 127
The Individual Level of Explanation: Biobehavioral Influences and Controlp. 144
Explaining Violence: Learning, Personality, and Social Contexts of Poverty, Race, and Ethnicityp. 161
Controlling Violent Crimep. 179
Notesp. 205
Referencesp. 210
About the Book and Authorp. 236
Indexp. 237
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