Understanding Race and CrimeMcGraw-Hill Education (UK), 16 lip 2007 - 256
The book provides a conceptual framework in which racism, race and crime might be better understood. It traces the historical origins of how thinking about crime came to be associated with racism and how fears and anxieties about race and crime become rooted in places destabilized by rapid social change. The book questions whether race and ethnicity alone are significant enough factors to explain differing offending and victimization patterns between ethnic groups. Issues examined include:
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... some minority ( and other ) groups simply reflects their higher rate of offending . The chapter also focuses on one of the police's core functions, to maintain public order, and the particular resonance this 8 Understanding race and crime.
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race place and fear of crime | 26 |
Chapter 4 Offending and victimisation | 43 |
Chapter 5 Racist violence | 67 |
Chapter 6 Race policing and disorder | 90 |
difference or discrimination? | 110 |
family schooling and peer groups | 127 |
Chapter 9 The AfricanAmerican underclass and the American Dream | 146 |
the racial state and genocide | 170 |
some concluding thoughts | 194 |
References | 203 |
Index | 223 |
Back cover | 240 |
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