Poverty Ethnicity And Violent Crime

Author : James F. Short, Jr.
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 0429966660
Total Pages : 256 pages
Book Rating : 4.68/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Poverty, Ethnicity, And Violent Crime written by James F. Short, Jr. and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2018-02-19 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 of Poverty, 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. }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 of Poverty, 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 : James F. Short, Jr.
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 0429977743
Total Pages : 380 pages
Book Rating : 4.49/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Poverty, Ethnicity, And Violent Crime written by James F. Short, Jr. and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2018-02-19 with total page 380 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 of Poverty, 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. }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 of Poverty, 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 : Darnell F. Hawkins
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521626743
Total Pages : 464 pages
Book Rating : 4.49/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Violent Crime written by Darnell F. Hawkins and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2003-02-24 with total page 464 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Analysts have long noted that some societies have much higher rates of criminal violence than others. They have also observed that the risk of being a victim or a perpetrator of violent crime varies considerably from one individual to another. In societies with ethnically and racially diverse populations, some ethnic and racial groups have been reported to have higher rates of violent offending and victimization than other groups. This series of essays explores the extent and causes of racial and ethnic differences in violent crime in the United States and several other contemporary societies.

Author : John Hagan
Publisher : Stanford University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780804724043
Total Pages : 396 pages
Book Rating : 4.40/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Crime and Inequality written by John Hagan and published by Stanford University Press. This book was released on 1995 with total page 396 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: These essays examine how and why inequality affects the patterning of crime and criminal justice. They evaluate the merits of various theoretical ideas, debates, and controversies regarding crime and inequality; document the dynamics of inequality in varied crime settings; examine methodologies used in exploring the crime-inequality relationship; and set forth new research and policy agendas for future work.

Author : Ruth D. Peterson
Publisher : NYU Press
ISBN 13 : 0814767192
Total Pages : 444 pages
Book Rating : 4.91/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Many Colors of Crime written by Ruth D. Peterson and published by NYU Press. This book was released on 2006-08 with total page 444 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Considering race and ethnicity as organising principles in why, how, where and by whom crimes are committed and enforced, this volume argues that dimensions of race and ethnicity condition the very laws that make certain behaviours criminal, and the determination of who becomes a victim of crime under which circumstances.

Author : Lynn A. Curtis
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 202 pages
Book Rating : 4.46/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Violence, Race, and Culture written by Lynn A. Curtis and published by . This book was released on 1975 with total page 202 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Ramiro Martínez (Jr.)
Publisher : NYU Press
ISBN 13 : 0814757049
Total Pages : 248 pages
Book Rating : 4.48/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Immigration and Crime written by Ramiro Martínez (Jr.) and published by NYU Press. This book was released on 2006-07 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The papers in this collection assess contemporary patterns of crime as related to immigration, race, and ethnicity. Overall, the contributors argue that fears of immigrant crime are largely unfounded, as immigrants are themselves often more likely to be the victims of discrimination, stigmatization, and crime.

Author : Lisa Lynn Miller
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.77/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Perils of Federalism written by Lisa Lynn Miller and published by . This book was released on 2008 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Much of the existing research on race and crime focuses on the manipulation of crime by political elites or the racially biased nature of crime policy. In contrast, the author here specifically focuses on political and socio-legal institutions and actors that drive these developments and their relationship to the politics of race and poverty. The author begins her study by providing a detailed analysis of the narrow and often parochial nature of national and state crime politics, drawing a sharp contrast to the active and intense local political mobilization on crime by racial minorities and the urban poor. In doing so, the book illustrates the ways in which the structure of U.S. federalism has contributed to the absence of black and poor victims of violence from national policy responses to crime and how highly organized but narrowly focused interest groups, such as the National Rifle Association, have a disproportionate influence in crime politics. Moreover, it illustrates how the absence of these groups from the policy process at other levels promotes policy frames that are highly skewed in favor of police, prosecutors, and narrow citizen interests, whose policy preferences often converge on increasing punishments for offenders.

Author : Ruth D. Peterson
Publisher : Russell Sage Foundation
ISBN 13 : 1610446771
Total Pages : 184 pages
Book Rating : 4.78/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Divergent Social Worlds written by Ruth D. Peterson and published by Russell Sage Foundation. This book was released on 2010-07-07 with total page 184 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: More than half a century after the first Jim Crow laws were dismantled, the majority of urban neighborhoods in the United States remain segregated by race. The degree of social and economic advantage or disadvantage that each community experiences—particularly its crime rate—is most often a reflection of which group is in the majority. As Ruth Peterson and Lauren Krivo note in Divergent Social Worlds, “Race, place, and crime are still inextricably linked in the minds of the public.” This book broadens the scope of single-city, black/white studies by using national data to compare local crime patterns in five racially distinct types of neighborhoods. Peterson and Krivo meticulously demonstrate how residential segregation creates and maintains inequality in neighborhood crime rates. Based on the authors’ groundbreaking National Neighborhood Crime Study (NNCS), Divergent Social Worlds provides a more complete picture of the social conditions underlying neighborhood crime patterns than has ever before been drawn. The study includes economic, social, and local investment data for nearly nine thousand neighborhoods in eighty-seven cities, and the findings reveal a pattern across neighborhoods of racialized separation among unequal groups. Residential segregation reproduces existing privilege or disadvantage in neighborhoods—such as adequate or inadequate schools, political representation, and local business—increasing the potential for crime and instability in impoverished non-white areas yet providing few opportunities for residents to improve conditions or leave. And the numbers bear this out. Among urban residents, more than two-thirds of all whites, half of all African Americans, and one-third of Latinos live in segregated local neighborhoods. More than 90 percent of white neighborhoods have low poverty, but this is only true for one quarter of black, Latino, and minority areas. Of the five types of neighborhoods studied, African American communities experience violent crime on average at a rate five times that of their white counterparts, with violence rates for Latino, minority, and integrated neighborhoods falling between the two extremes. Divergent Social Worlds lays to rest the popular misconception that persistently high crime rates in impoverished, non-white neighborhoods are merely the result of individual pathologies or, worse, inherent group criminality. Yet Peterson and Krivo also show that the reality of crime inequality in urban neighborhoods is no less alarming. Separate, the book emphasizes, is inherently unequal. Divergent Social Worlds lays the groundwork for closing the gap—and for next steps among organizers, policymakers, and future researchers. A Volume in the American Sociological Association’s Rose Series in Sociology

Author : Helen Taylor Greene
Publisher : SAGE
ISBN 13 : 1412989078
Total Pages : 505 pages
Book Rating : 4.77/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Race and Crime written by Helen Taylor Greene and published by SAGE. This book was released on 2011-04-18 with total page 505 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Race and Crime: A Text Reader includes a collection of recent articles on race and crime published in a number of leading criminal justice journals, along with original textual material that serves to explain and unify the readings. Through discussion of selected articles, numerous topics are explored, including the historical, social, economic and political contexts of race and crime, such as class, gender, comparative perspectives, justice issues, theories and statistics.