Race and Crime [Paperback]

Shaun L. Gabbidon (Author), Helen T. (Taylor) Greene (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: May 5, 2005 | ISBN-10: 0761929487 | ISBN-13: 978-0761929482 | Edition: 1

Race and Crime provides a compelling analysis of the issues of race and crime in both a historical and contemporary context. Each of nine chapters presents information on race and ethnicity and their impact on the administration of justice. Experiences of racial and ethnic groups (Asians, blacks, Latino(a)s, Native Americans, and whites) in  America are examined,  focusing primarily on their experiences in the criminal justice system.  Unique coverage in this text includes an overview of the history of collecting crime data; historical, contemporary, and nontraditional theoretical perspectives; the history of race and policing, the courts, sentencing, and corrections; and an overview of the historical context of race effects in juvenile justice.   
   

 

 

Editorial Reviews

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“This text is an excellent resource book for both the academic and the practitioner. ..Race and Crime is an indispensable book for anyone who wants to understand racial and ethnic issues, crime, and criminal justice.” (Lorenzo M. Boyd )

"They [the authors] describe the way in which legal, political and psychological tools were used
to maintain slavery and to embed the notion of black inferiority (in black and white
people), to sustain the profits of slavery." (Hindpal Singh Bhui Probation Journal ) --This text refers to an alternate Paperback edition.

About the Author

Shaun L. Gabbidon is Distinguished Professor of Criminal Justice in the School of Public Affairs at Penn State Harrisburg. He earned his PhD in Criminology at Indiana University of Pennsylvania. Dr. Gabbidon has served as a fellow at Harvard University’s W. E. B. Du Bois Institute for Afro-American Research and as an adjunct faculty member in the Center for Africana Studies at the University of Pennsylvania. His areas of interest include race and crime, private security, and criminology and criminal justice pedagogy. Professor Gabbidon is the author of more than 100 scholarly publications, including 12 books and more than 50 peer-reviewed articles. His most recent books include Race, Ethnicity, Crime and Justice: An International Dilemma (2009), Criminological Perspectives on Race and Crime (2nd edition) (2010), and A Theory of African American Offending (with James Unnever) (2011). He cur­rently serves as the inaugural editor of the new Sage journal Race and Justice: An Interna­tional Journal.

Helen Taylor Greene is Professor of Administration of Justice in the Barbara Jordan–Mickey Leland School of Public Affairs (SPA) at Texas Southern University (TSU) and currently serves as Interim Associate Dean in the SPA. Earlier, she served as chair and graduate program director of the Department of Administration of Justice at TSU. She completed her BS in Sociology at Howard University, her MS in the Administration of Justice at American University, and both her MA in Political Science and PhD in Criminol­ogy at the University of Maryland, College Park. Areas of interest include race and crime, juvenile justice, and policing. She has authored, co-authored, and edited peer-reviewed articles and books and, most recently, served as lead editor for the Encyclopedia of Race and Crime (2009). In 2010, she received the Lifetime Achievement Award from the American Society of Criminology’s Division on People of Color and Crime.

Product Details

• Paperback: 368 pages
• Publisher: Sage Publications, Inc; 1 edition (May 5, 2005)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0761929487
• ISBN-13: 978-0761929482
• Product Dimensions: 10 x 7 x 1 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.2 pounds
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,113,660 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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