Blacks and Crime - A Function of Class

List of contents

Preface
Acknowledgments
Theorizing
Class, Family Structure, and Conflict
Class and Race
Black Families in Contemporary U.S.
Race and the Attack on EEOC
Pathologies Confronted by the Black Family
Perspectives on Delinquent and Criminal Behavior
Weakness of Existing Explanations
Race, Delinquency and Crime
Hate, Crime and Social Structure
Employee Theft
Economic Decline and Black Males
Assaultive Behavior
Sanction and Compliance Norms
Bibliography
Index

About the author

JAMES A. CHAMBERS is Assistant Professor of Criminology at Indiana State University. He has published Slavery, Philosophy, and Socioeconomic Disorder (1993).

Product details

• Authors: James A. Chambers, Chambers James A.
• Publisher: Bloomsbury
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 28.06.1995
• EAN: 9780275949372
• ISBN: 978-0-275-94937-2
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Law > Criminal law, criminal procedural law, criminology; USA, Ethnic Studies, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Criminology, Social discrimination & inequality, United States of America, USA, Crime and criminology, Crime & criminology, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Discrimination, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Race & Ethnic Relations, Black & Asian Studies, Racism and racial discrimination / Anti-racism, Social discrimination and social justice, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Cultural & Ethnic Studies / General, Current Events and Issues: Law and Crime