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
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Toward | 67 |
Toward an Understanding of the Lower Rates | 91 |
Haitian African American | 108 |
African American | 122 |
Race Class Gender | 138 |
A Contextual | 157 |
Perceptions of Crime and Safety in Racially | 237 |
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 |
Bibliography | 367 |
Is the Gap between Black and White Arrest Rates | 179 |
Race Labor Markets and Neighborhood Violence | 199 |
Consequences | 221 |
Contributors | 413 |