The Many Colors of Crime: Inequalities of Race, Ethnicity, and Crime in AmericaRuth D. Peterson, Lauren J. Krivo, John Hagan 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. |
Contents
Conceptualizing Race and Ethnicity in Studies | 39 |
Toward | 67 |
Toward an Understanding of the Lower Rates | 91 |
African American | 122 |
Race Class Gender | 138 |
A Contextual | 157 |
Is the Gap between Black and White Arrest Rates | 179 |
Race Labor Markets and Neighborhood Violence | 199 |
Neighborhood Race and the Economic Consequences | 256 |
The Case of Crack Cocaine | 277 |
Formal and Informal | 295 |
Toward a Developmental and Comparative Conflict | 313 |
Race and Neighborhood Codes of Violence | 334 |
A Deeper Understanding of Race Ethnicity | 357 |
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Contributors | 413 |