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Introduction: Inequalities of Race, Ethnicity, and Crime in America
1 Cultural Mechanisms and Killing Fields: A Revised Theory of Community-Level Racial Inequality
Part I. Constructs and Conceptual Approaches
2 Conceptualizing Race and Ethnicity in Studies of Crime and Criminal Justice
3 Demythologizing the "Criminalblackman": The Carnival Mirror
4 Race and the Justice Workforce: Toward a System Perspective
Part II. Populations and Intersectionalities
5 Toward an Understanding of the Lower Rates of Homicide in Latino versus Black Neighborhoods: A Look at Chicago
6 Extending Ethnicity and Violence Research in a Multiethnic City: Haitian, African American, and Latino Nonlethal Violence
7 Crime and Deviance in the "Black Belt": African American Youth in Rural and Nonrural Developmental Contexts
8 Crime at the Intersections: Race, Class, Gender, and Violent Offending
9 Race, Inequality, and Gender Violence: A Contextual Examination
Part III. Contexts and Settings
10 Is the Gap between Black and White Arrest Rates Narrowing? National Trends for Personal Contact Crimes, 1960 to 2002
11 Race, Labor Markets, and Neighborhood Violence
12 Drug Markets in Minority Communities: Consequences for Mexican American Youth Gangs
13 Perceptions of Crime and Safety in Racially and Economically Distinct Neighborhoods
14 Neighborhood, Race, and the Economic Consequences of Incarceration in New York City, 1985-1996
Part IV. Mechanisms and Processes
15 Creating Racial Disadvantage: The Case of Crack Cocaine
16 Transforming Communities: Formal and Informal Mechanisms of Social Control
17 Toward a Developmental and Comparative Conflict Theory of Race, Ethnicity, and Perceptions of Criminal Injustice
18 Race and Neighborhood Codes of Violence
Conclusion: A Deeper Understanding of Race, Ethnicity, Crime, and Criminal Justice
Bibliography
Contributors
Index
Contents
Acknowledgments
Introduction: Inequalities of Race, Ethnicity, and Crime in America
1 Cultural Mechanisms and Killing Fields: A Revised Theory of Community-Level Racial Inequality
Part I. Constructs and Conceptual Approaches
2 Conceptualizing Race and Ethnicity in Studies of Crime and Criminal Justice
3 Demythologizing the "Criminalblackman": The Carnival Mirror
4 Race and the Justice Workforce: Toward a System Perspective
Part II. Populations and Intersectionalities
5 Toward an Understanding of the Lower Rates of Homicide in Latino versus Black Neighborhoods: A Look at Chicago
6 Extending Ethnicity and Violence Research in a Multiethnic City: Haitian, African American, and Latino Nonlethal Violence
7 Crime and Deviance in the "Black Belt": African American Youth in Rural and Nonrural Developmental Contexts
8 Crime at the Intersections: Race, Class, Gender, and Violent Offending
9 Race, Inequality, and Gender Violence: A Contextual Examination
Part III. Contexts and Settings
10 Is the Gap between Black and White Arrest Rates Narrowing? National Trends for Personal Contact Crimes, 1960 to 2002
11 Race, Labor Markets, and Neighborhood Violence
12 Drug Markets in Minority Communities: Consequences for Mexican American Youth Gangs
13 Perceptions of Crime and Safety in Racially and Economically Distinct Neighborhoods
14 Neighborhood, Race, and the Economic Consequences of Incarceration in New York City, 1985-1996
Part IV. Mechanisms and Processes
15 Creating Racial Disadvantage: The Case of Crack Cocaine
16 Transforming Communities: Formal and Informal Mechanisms of Social Control
17 Toward a Developmental and Comparative Conflict Theory of Race, Ethnicity, and Perceptions of Criminal Injustice
18 Race and Neighborhood Codes of Violence
Conclusion: A Deeper Understanding of Race, Ethnicity, Crime, and Criminal Justice
Bibliography
Contributors
Index