Race, Gender, and Class in Criminology

by Schwartz,Martin D.

• ISBN13: 9780815337263
• ISBN10: 0815337264
• Format: Nonspecific Binding
• Copyright: 1999-10-01
• Publisher: Routledge

Summary

These original essays focus on class, race and gender as organizing and analytical concepts in criminology. For many years, their importance in studying how the world relates to crime and its control was minimized or ignored. It is clear, however, that these concepts are of critical importance in understanding societal issues, especially crime and societal responses to it. Featuring work by some of the most important scholars in critical criminology, this volume examines each of these important factors; their intersection and interrelationship. The result is an extraordinary volume that is a significant contribution to the field.

Table of Contents

Introduction	ix
I. THEORETICAL PERSPECTIVES	1	(124)
Class, Race, Gender and Criminology: Structured Choices and the Life Course	3	(26)
Michael J. Lynch
Gender Inequality and Criminalization: A Socialist Feminist Perspective on the Legal Social Control of Women	29	(20)
Mona J.E. Danner
The Left Realist Perspective on Race, Class, and Gender	49	(24)
Walter S. DeKeseredy
Postmodern Criminology on Race, Class, and Gender	73	(18)
Bruce A. Arrigo
Peacemaking Criminology: Introduction and Implications for the Intersection of Race, Class, and Gender	91	(14)
Susan L. Caulfield
Mass-Mediated Regimes of Truth: Race, Gender, and Class in Crime ``News'' Thematics	105	(20)
Gregg Barak
II. APPLICATIONS	125	(168)
Sentencing Women to Prison: Equality Without Justice	127	(14)
Meda Chesney-Lind
White Collar Crime and the Class-Race-Gender Construct	141	(18)
David O. Friedrichs
Victimization of Homeless Youth: Public and Private Regimes of Control	159	(34)
Suzanne E. Hatty
Nanette J. Davis
Stuart Burke
Aboriginal Australia: Current Criminological Themes	193	(26)
Rick Sarre
An Examination of Disposition Decision-Making for Delinquent Girls	219	(28)
Jody Miller
Controlling Homeless Mothers: The Surveillance of Women in a Homeless Shelter	247	(20)
Victoria Pitts
Adolescence and the Socialization of Gendered Fear	267	(26)
Jo Goodey
Index	293