Overview

In light of the Black Lives Matter movement and protests in many cities, race plays an ever more salient role in crime and justice. Within theoretical criminology, however, race has oddly remained on the periphery. It is often introduced as a control variable in tests of theories and is rarely incorporated as a central construct in mainstream paradigms (e.g., control, social learning, and strain theories). When race is discussed, the standard approach is to embrace the racial invariance thesis, which argues that any racial differences in crime are due to African Americans being exposed to the same criminogenic risk factors as are Whites, just more of them. An alternative perspective has emerged that seeks to identify the unique, racially specific conditions that only Blacks experience. Within the United States, these conditions are rooted in the historical racial oppression experienced by African Americans, whose contemporary legacy includes concentrated disadvantage in segregated communities, racial socialization by parents, experiences with and perceptions of racial discrimination, and disproportionate involvement in and unjust treatment by the criminal justice system. Importantly, racial invariance and race specificity are not mutually exclusive perspectives. Evidence exists that Blacks and Whites commit crimes for both the same reasons (invariance) and for different reasons (race-specific). A full understanding of race and crime thus must involve demarcating both the general and specific causes of crime, the latter embedded in what it means to be ""Black"" in the United States. This volume seeks to explore these theoretical issues in a depth and breadth that is not common under one cover. Again, given the salience of race and crime, this volume should be of interest to a wide range of criminologists and have the potential to be used in graduate seminars and upper-level undergraduate courses.

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Author:   James D. Unnever (University of South Florida, USA) ,  Shaun L. Gabbidon (Pennsylvania State Capital College, USA) ,  Cecilia Chouhy (Florida State University)
Publisher:   Taylor & Francis Ltd
Imprint:   Routledge
Weight:   0.600kg
ISBN:  

9780367504915

ISBN 10:   036750491
Pages:   422
Publication Date:   25 February 2020
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Tertiary & Higher Education ,  Undergraduate
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print  
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Table of Contents

Part I. Foundations 1. A Black Criminology Matters 2. Pioneering Black Criminology: W.E.B. Du Bois and The Philadelphia Negro 3. 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 Control 11. 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

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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.

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