1st Edition

Poverty, Ethnicity, And Violent Crime

By James F. Short, Jr. Copyright 1997
256 Pages
by Routledge

260 Pages
by Routledge

256 Pages
by Routledge

Violent crime in America is more strongly associated with poverty and with changing social and economic conditions than with race or ethnicity, and patterns of violence are changing. These are among the conclusions of Poverty, Ethnicity, and Violent Crime, a searching analysis that draws on scholarly research from all the social and behavioral sciences. By framing his analysis in terms of... Read more
Foreword -- Preface -- Introduction -- Measuring Violent Crime: Trends and Social Distributions -- “Levels of Explanation” of Violent Crime -- Community and Neighborhood Contexts of Violent Crime -- The Role of Unsupervised Youth Groups in Violence -- Levels of Explanation of Violent Behavior Committed in Groups -- Explaining Violent Crime: The Macrosocial Level of Explanation -- The Individual Level of Explanation: Biobehavioral Influences and Control -- Explaining Violence: Learning, Personality, and Social Contexts of Poverty, Race, and Ethnicity -- Controlling Violent Crime

Biography

James F. Short Jr.