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In light of the Black Lives Matter movement and protests in many cities, the role of race in crime and justice is now ever-more salient. This volume seeks to explore theoretical issues in depth and breadth, it should be of interest to a range of criminologists and have the potential to be used in graduate seminars and upper-level undergraduate courses.
List of contents
Part I. Foundations 1. A Black Criminology Matters
2. Pioneering Black Criminology: W.E.B. Du Bois and
The Philadelphia Negro3. Beyond White Criminology
4. The Racial Invariance Thesis
5. Black Criminology in the 21st Century
Part II. Explaining Crime 6. The Cost of Racial Inequality Revisited: An Excursion in the Sociology of Knowledge
7. Code of the Street: Elijah Anderson and Beyond
8. Race, Place Management, and Crime
9. Racial Discrimination and Cultural Adaptations: An Evolutionary Developmental Approach
10. Forgotten Offenders: Race, White-Collar Crime, and the Black Church
Part III. Social Control11. Racial Threat and Social Control
12. Race and the Procedural Justice Model of Policing
13. The Paradox of a Black Incarceration Boom in an Era of Declining Black Crime: Causes and Consequences
14. Race and Rehabilitation
About the author
James D. Unnever is a Professor of Criminology at the University of South Florida Sarasota-Manatee.
Shaun L. Gabbidon is a Distinguished Professor of Criminal Justice at Penn State Harrisburg.
Cecilia Chouhy is an Assistant Professor in the College of Criminology and Criminal Justice at the Florida State University.
Summary
In light of the Black Lives Matter movement and protests in many cities, the role of race in crime and justice is now ever-more salient. This volume seeks to explore theoretical issues in depth and breadth, it should be of interest to a range of criminologists and have the potential to be used in graduate seminars and upper-level undergraduate courses.
