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Building a Black Criminology, Volume 24: Race, Theory, and Crime book cover

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Building a Black Criminology, Volume 24 Race, Theory, and Crime

Edited By James D. Unnever, Shaun L. Gabbidon, Cecilia Chouhy Copyright 2019
422 Pages 7 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

422 Pages 7 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

422 Pages 7 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge
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In light of the Black Lives Matter movement and protests in many cities, race plays an ever more salient role in crime and justice. Within theoretical criminology, however, race has oddly remained on the periphery. It is often introduced as a control variable in tests of theories and is rarely incorporated as a central construct in mainstream paradigms (e.g., control, social learning, and strain... Read more

Part I. Foundations

1. A Black Criminology Matters- James D. Unnever and Akwasi Owusu-Bempah

2. Pioneering Black Criminology: W.E.B. Du Bois and The Philadelphia Negro - Shaun L. Gabbidon

3. Beyond White Criminology - Francis T. Cullen, Cecilia Chouhy, Leah Butler, and Heejin Lee

4. The Racial Invariance Thesis - James D. Unnever

5. Black Criminology in the 21st Century - Katheryn Russell-Brown

Part II. Explaining Crime

6. The Cost of Racial Inequality Revisited: An Excursion in the Sociology of Knowledge - Steven F. Messner and Brian J. Stults

7. Code of the Street: Elijah Anderson and Beyond - Kristin Swartz and Pamela Wilcox

8. Race, Place Management, and Crime - John E. Eck

9. Racial Discrimination and Cultural Adaptations: An Evolutionary Developmental Approach - Callie H. Burt

10. Forgotten Offenders: Race, White-Collar Crime, and the Black Church -  Michael L. Benson and Jay P. Kennedy

Part III. Social Control

11. Racial Threat and Social Control: A Review and Conceptual Framework for Advancing Racial Threat Theory - Ben Feldmeyer and Joshua C. Cochran

12. Race and the Procedural Justice Model of Policing - Hannah D. McManus, Jillian G. Shafer, and Amanda K. Graham

13. The Paradox of a Black Incarceration Boom in an Era of Declining Black Crime: Causes and Consequences  - Ojmarrh Mitchell

14. Race and Rehabilitation - Paula Smith and Christina Campbell

Biography

James D. Unnever is a Professor of Criminology at the University of South Florida Sarasota-Manatee.

Shaun L. Gabbidon is a Distinguished Professor of Criminal Justice at Penn State Harrisburg.

Cecilia Chouhy is an Assistant Professor in the College of Criminology and Criminal Justice at the Florida State University.

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