Read more
This innovative text/reader from pre-eminent authors and researchers Helen Taylor Greene and Shaun Gabbidon combines textual material with recent, carefully edited articles from well-known and emerging scholars. The articles have been published in leading criminology and criminal justice journals, such as "Crime & Delinquency, Criminology, Journal of Research in Crime and Delinquency, Justice Quarterly, "and" Theoretical Criminology." The book explores historical and contemporary issues such as race as a social construct; the treatment of minorities and immigrants in American history; explanations of race and crime; disproportionate arrest, victimization, and confinement; racial profiling; wrongful convictions; and the War on Drugs.
List of contents
1. Overview of Race and Crime
2. Extent of Crime and Victimization
3. Theoretical Perspectives on Race and Crime
4. Policing
5. Courts
6. Sentencing
7. The Death Penalty
8. Corrections
9. Juvenile Justice
About the author
Shaun L. Gabbidon is Distinguished Professor of Criminal Justice in the School of Public Affairs at Penn State Harrisburg. He earned his PhD in Criminology at Indiana University of Pennsylvania. Dr. Gabbidon has served as a fellow at Harvard University's W. E. B. Du Bois Institute for Afro-American Research and as an adjunct faculty member in the Center for Africana Studies at the University of Pennsylvania. His areas of interest include race and crime, private security, and criminology and criminal justice pedagogy. Professor Gabbidon is the author of more than 100 scholarly publications, including 12 books and more than 50 peer-reviewed articles. His most recent books include Race, Ethnicity, Crime and Justice: An International Dilemma (2009), Criminological Perspectives on Race and Crime (2nd edition) (2010), and A Theory of African American Offending (with James Unnever) (2011). He currently serves as the inaugural editor of the new Sage journal Race and Justice: An International Journal.
