Race, crime, and justice : a reader / edited by Shaun L. Gabbidon, Helen Taylor Greene.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Race and crime : early writings -- 1. The spawn of slavery : the convict-lease system in the South / W.E.B. Du Bois -- 2. Social factors in Oriental crime / Norman S. Hayner -- 3. Variability in the criminal behavior of American Indians / Norman S. Hayner -- 4. Lynching and the status quo / Oliver C. Cox -- Race, crime, and the disproportionality debate -- 5. On racial disproportionality of United States' prison populations / Alfred Blumstein -- 6. Changing conceptions of race : toward an account of anomalous findings of sentencing research / Ruth D. Peterson, John Hagan -- 7. My Black crime problem, and ours / John J. DiIulio, Jr. -- 8. Race, conventional crime, and criminal justice : the declining importance of skin color / Matt DeLisi, Robert Regoli -- Women, race, and crime -- 9. The criminality of the colored woman / Hans von Hentig -- 10. The image of Black women in criminology : historical stereotypes as theoretical foundation / Jacklyn Huey, Michael J. Lynch -- 11. Up it up : gender and the accomplishment of street robbery / Jody Miller -- 12. Sociodemographic predictors and cultural barriers to help-seeking behavior by Latina and Anglo American battered women / Carolyn M. West, Glenda Kaufman Kantor, Jana L. Jasinski -- Race, crime, and communities -- 13. Toward a theory of race, crime, and urban inequality / Robert J. Sampson, William Julius Wilson -- 14. Race and place : the ecology of racial profiling African American motorists / Albert J. Meehan, Michael C. Ponder -- 15. Crime and racial profiling by U.S. police : is there an empirical basis? / Jared Taylor, Glayde Whitney -- 16. Defending the color line : racially and ethnically motivated hate crime / Barbara Perry -- Explaining race and violent crimes -- 17. Black and white homicide differentials : alternatives to an inadequate theory / Darnell F. Hawkins -- 18. Revisiting the Scarface legacy : the victim/offender relationship and Mariel homicides in Miami / Ramiro Martinez, Jr., Matthew T. Lee, Amie L. Nielson -- 19. An analysis of American Indian homicide : a test of social disorganization and economic deprivation at the reservation county level / Ronet Bachman -- 20. Attitudes towards marital violence : an examination of four Asian communities / Marianne R. Yoshioka, Jennifer DiNoia, Komal Ullah -- Race, crime and punishment -- 21. The changing forms of racial/ethnic biases in sentencing / Marjorie S. Zatz -- 22. American Indians and sentencing disparity : an Arizona test / Alexander Alvarez, Ronet D. Bachman -- 23. The new "peculiar institution" : on the prison as surrogate ghetto / Loïc Wacquant -- 24. Crack-ing down on Black drug offenders? : testing for interactions among offenders' race, drug type, and sentencing strategy in federal drug sentences / Paula Kautt, Cassia Spohn.

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A comprehensive collection of the essential writings on race and crime, this important Reader spans more than a century and clearly demonstrates the long-standing difficulties minorities have faced with the justice system. The editors skillfully draw on the classic work of such thinkers as W.E.B. DuBois and Gunnar Myrdal as well as the contemporary work of scholars such as Angela Davis, Joan Petersilia, John Hagen and Robert Sampson. This anthology also covers all of the major topics and issues from policing, courts, drugs and urban violence to inequality, racial profiling and capital.

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