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Informationen zum Autor Helen Taylor Greene is Professor of Administration of Justice in the Barbara Jordan–Mickey Leland School of Public Affairs (SPA) at Texas Southern University (TSU). She completed her BS in Sociology at Howard University, her MS in the Administration of Justice at American University, and both her MA in Political Science and PhD in Criminology at the University of Maryland, College Park. Her areas of research include race and crime, juvenile justice, and policing. She has authored and co-authored books, has peer-reviewed articles and book chapters, and has served as lead editor for the Encyclopedia of Race and Crime (2009). 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, criminal justice and criminology pedagogy, and private security. Professor Gabbidon is the author of more than 100 scholarly publications, including 60 peer-reviewed articles and 11 books. Klappentext 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. Zusammenfassung This text/reader combines textual material with recent! carefully edited articles by well-known and emerging scholars. Inhaltsverzeichnis Foreword Preface and Introduction How to Read a Research Article SECTION ONE: Overview of Race, Ethnicity and Crime Section Highlights The Concepts of Race and Ethnicity Prejudice and Discrimination Race and Crime in American History Summary Key Terms Discussion Questions Web Resources Readings: The History of Native Americans and the Misdirected Study of Organized Crime, by Jane Dickson-Gilmore and Michael Woodiwiss Race as Class, by Herbert J. Glans Marginalized White Ethnicity, Race and Crime, by Colin Webster SECTION TWO: Extent of Crime and Victimization Section Highlights Sources of Crime and Victimization Statistics Limitations of Crime, Arrest, and Victimization Statistics Race and the Extent of Crime and Victimization Race and Victimization Summary Key Terms Discussion Questions Web Resources Readings: Intimate Partner Homicide: Review and Implications of Research and Policy, by Jacquelyn C. Campbell, Nancy Glass, Phyllis W. Sharps, Kathryn Laughon, and Tina Bloom Exploring Bystander Presence and Intervention in Nonfatal Violent Victimization: When Does Helping Really Help? by Timothy C. Hart and Terance D. Miethe Co-offending and the Age-Crime Curve, by Lisa Stolzenberg and Stewart J. D¿Alessio SECTION THREE: Theoretical Perspectives on Race and Crime Section Highlights What Is Theory? Biological Theories on Race and Crime Sociological Theories on Race and Crime Social Disorganization Collective Efficacy Strain/Anomie Theory General Strain Theory The Colonial Model Summary Key Terms Discussion Questions Web Resources ...
