Street Justice: Retaliation in the Criminal Underworld

by Bruce A. Jacobs , Richard Wright

• ISBN13: 9780521617987
• ISBN10: 0521617987
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2006-05-22
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Summary

Street criminals live in a dangerous world, but they cannot realistically rely on the criminal justice system to protect them from predation by fellow lawbreakers; they are on their own when it comes to dealing with crimes perpetrated against them and often use retaliation as a mechanism for deterring and responding to victimization. Although retaliation lies at the heart of much of the violence that plagues many inner-city neighborhoods across the United States, it has received scant attention from criminologists. As a result, the structure, process, and forms of retaliation in the real world setting of urban America remain poorly understood. Criminal Retaliation: Street Justice and Social Control explores the face of modern day retaliation from the perspective of currently active criminals who have experienced it first hand, as offenders, victims, or both.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments	ix
Preface	xi
Background and Methods	1	(24)
The Retaliatory Ethic	25	(20)
A Typology of Criminal Retaliation	45	(30)
Gender and Retaliation	75	(26)
Christopher Mullins
Imperfect Retaliation	101	(22)
Retaliation in Perspective	123	(14)
Works Cited	137	(12)
Index	149