Overview

The twelve papers in this volume examine how and why inequality affects the patterns of crime and criminal justice. The contributors evaluate the merits of various theoretical ideas, debates, and controversies; document the dynamics of inequality in varied crime settings; examine methodologies used in exploring the crime-inequality relationship; and set forth new research and policy agendas for future work. The first two papers deal with race. Then, three papers consider the relationship between unemployment and crime, the effect of subordinate position on criminal outcomes, and age patterns in delinquency and crime. The next three papers all address gender and crime. The following paper deals with crime and inequality in Eastern Europe. The final three papers take us into the realms of technology, ecology, and philosophy, and are devoted to various strategies deployed to control crime.

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Author:   John Hagan ,  Ruth Peterson
Publisher:   Stanford University Press
Imprint:   Stanford University Press
Edition:   New edition
Dimensions:   Width: 15.20cm , Height: 2.10cm , Length: 22.90cm
Weight:   0.526kg
ISBN:  

9780804724777

ISBN 10:   0804724776
Pages:   277
Publication Date:   01 June 1995
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Professional and scholarly ,  Undergraduate ,  Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

Introduction 1. Criminal inequality in America: patterns and consequences John Hagan and Ruth Peterson 2. Race, crime, and urban inequality Robert Sampson and William Julius Wilson 3. Unemployment and crime rate fluctuations in the post-World War II United States: statistical time-series properties and alternative models Ken Land, David Cantor and Stephen T. Russell 4. Ethnography, inequality, and crime in the low-income community Marti;n Sanchez Jankowski 5. Age-inequality and property crime: the effects of age-linked stratification and status-attainment processes on patterns of criminality across the life course Darrell Steffensmeier and Emilie Andersen Allan 6. Crime and inequality in eighteenth-century London John Beattie 7. Gender, race, and the pathways to delinquency: an interactionist explanation Karen Heimer 8. Gender inequality and violence against women: the case of murder William Bailey and Ruth Peterson 9. Crime, inequality, and justice in Eastern Europe: anomic, domination, and revolutionary change Joachim Savelsberg 10. The engineering of social control: the search for the silver bullet Gary T. Marx 11. Law, crime, and inequality: the regulatory state Peter C. Yeager 12. Inequality and republican criminology John Braithwaite.

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