Understanding Race And CrimeThe 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. |
Contents
racialisation and criminalisation | 1 |
criminology eugenics and the criminal type | 11 |
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 |
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Back cover | 240 |
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