The Many Colors of Crime - Inequalities of Race, Ethnicity, and Crime in America

Informationen zum Autor University. Lauren J. Krivo is associate director of the Criminal Justice Research Center at Ohio State University. John Hagan is John D. MacArthur Professor of Sociology and Law at Northwestern University. Ruth D. Peterson is director of the Criminal Justice Research Center at Ohio State Klappentext In this authoritative volume, race and ethnicity are themselves considered as central organizing principles in why, how, where and by whom crimes are committed and enforced. The contributors argue that dimensions of race and ethnicity condition the very laws that make certain behaviors criminal, the perception of crime and those who are criminalized, the determination of who becomes a victim of crime under which circumstances, the responses to laws and crime that make some more likely to be defined as criminal, and the ways that individuals and communities are positioned and empowered to respond to crime. Zusammenfassung Considers race and ethnicity as central organizing 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.

Product details

• Authors: Ruth D. (EDT)/ Krivo Peterson
• Assisted by: John Hagan (Editor), Lauren J Krivo (Editor), Lauren J. Krivo (Editor), Ruth D Peterson (Editor), Ruth D. Peterson (Editor)
• Publisher: New York University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 01.08.2006
• EAN: 9780814767207
• ISBN: 978-0-8147-6720-7
• No. of pages: 430
• Dimensions: 152 mm x 229 mm x 19 mm
• Series: New Perspectives in Crime, Deviance, and Law; New Perspectives in Crime, Deviance, and Law; New Perspectives in Crime, Dev
• Subject: Social sciences, law, business > Sociology > Sociological theories