1st Edition

Crime, Violence and Minority Youths

By Becky Tatum Copyright 2000
130 Pages
by Routledge

130 Pages
by Routledge

130 Pages
by Routledge

This title was first published in 2000:  Mainstream criminology has devoted little attention to minority perspectives in crime and violence. Criminologists who have examined minority perspectives have addressed the issue in a cursory manner, providing only brief summaries of the propositions of the perspective. This book provides a comprehensive examination of one minority perspective on... Read more
Contents: Social structure and crime; Toward a neocolonial model; Colonialism and Mexican Americans; Developing a research agenda; The effects of race and class; Pathways to assimilation and crime; Theoretical promise of the colonial perspective; References; Bibliography; Index.

Biography

Becky Tatum

’...raises challenging views about race and crime in America today.’ SAGE, Race Relations Abstracts ’Mainstream criminology has devoted little attention to minority perspectives in crime and violence. This book provides a comprehensive examination...’ Adolescence