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Intro -- RACE AND CRIMEA BIOSOCIAL ANALYSIS -- RACE AND CRIMEA BIOSOCIAL ANALYSIS -- CONTENTS -- PREFACE -- OUTLINE OF THE BOOK -- Chapter 1THE RACE CONCEPT -- THE SOCIAL CONSTRUCTION OF RACE -- IS RACE A SOCIALLY DANGEROUS IDEA? -- RACE AND GENETIC DISTANCE -- MAPPING A BEHAVIOR-INFLUENCINGGENE SUBJECT TO NATURAL SELECTION -- GENE COUNTING,WITHIN AND BETWEEN -- RUSHTON'S LIFE HISTORY THEORY -- CONCLUSION -- ENDNOTES -- Chapter 2RACIAL DIFFERENCES IN CRIMINAL BEHAVIOR -- AFRICAN AMERICAN CRIME -- RACE BASED CRIME DATA -- RACE, HOMICIDE, AND RAPE -- BLACK CRIME RATES OUTSIDE THE UNITED STATES -- THE ISSUE OF BIAS IN OFFICIAL STATISTICS -- ARE RACIAL COMPARISONS BASEDON DISPROPORTIONALITY VALID? -- CRIME AMONG OTHER RACIAL/ETHNICGROUPS IN THE UNITED STATES -- Asian Americans -- Hispanic Americans -- American Indian/Alaskan Native -- CONCLUSION -- ENDNOTES -- Chapter 3RACE AND "EXTRA-ORDINARY" CRIME -- MULTIPLE MURDER -- Mass and Spree Murder -- Serial Murder -- HATE CRIMES -- WHITE-COLLAR CRIME -- ORGANIZED CRIME -- WHY SO LITTLE COVERAGE OF EXTRA-ORDINARYAFRICAN AMERICAN CRIME? -- CONCLUSION -- ENDNOTES -- Chapter 4RACISM:ADISTANT BUTPOWERFUL CAUSE OF CRIME -- RACISM: OLD AND NEW -- RACISM AND OTHER MINORITY GROUPS -- SLAVERY, RACISM, AND THE FORMATIONOF A BLACK SUBCULTURE OF VIOLENCE -- THE FORMATION OF AN OPPOSITIONAL CULTURE -- HOW PAST RACISM CONTRIBUTES TO PRESENT CRIME -- CONCLUSION -- ENDNOTES -- Chapter 5RACE, POVERTY, AND CRIME -- THE POVERTY/CRIME NEXUS -- POVERTY AND RACE/ETHNICITY -- The Anomie/Strain Argument -- WORKING FOR A LIVING -- SINGLE-PARENT FAMILIES AND POVERTY -- EDUCATION AND POVERTY -- INDIVIDUAL AND SUBCULTURAL EXPLANATIONS -- THE ENVIRONMENT AND IQ -- MERIT AND OCCUPATIONAL SUCCESS -- EDUCATION AND THE BLACK COMMUNITY -- CONCLUSION -- ENDNOTES

"Race and Crime examines how and why racialized mass incarceration emerged as a new racial management strategy in the United States and explores its impact on the institutions of criminal justice. Elizabeth Brown and George Barganier historicize the issues of race and crime in society by returning to the history of colonial conquest and the emergence of the idea of race. They show how this idea transitions and transforms throughout history and affects the creation of state power, the emergence of new state institutions, and geographies of racial segregation. Finally, they analyze how punishment, the death penalty, and everyday practices of surveillance practiced in and through the police and courts shape the geographical expression of injustice in the United States today."--Provided by publisher

This book argues that a theory of crime specific to the African American experience is justified by qualitative and quantitative data, not just because of the disproportionately higher percentage of African Americans (in the U.S. population) who are offenders, but also because of the vastly higher percentage of Black Americans who are non-offenders.

1. Introduction : bending the paradigm : new directions and new generations / Coretta Phillips and Colin Webster -- 2. 'Antisemitism' and anti-Jewish 'hatred' : conceptual, political and legal challenges / Paul Iganski -- 3. Negotiating identities : ethnicity, religion and social cohesion in London and Bradford / Colin Webster -- 4. We belong to Glasgow : the thirdspaces of youth 'gangs' and asylum seeker, refugee and migrant groups / Alistair Fraser and Teresa Piacentini -- 5. Citizenship and belonging in a women's immigration detention centre / Mary Bosworth and Blerina Kellezi -- 6. Black perspectives on race, crime and justice / Suzella Palmer -- 7. Configuring ethnic identities : resistance as a response to counter-terrorist policy / Alpa Parmar -- 8. Offenders or victims? An exploration of gypsies and travellers as a policing paradox / Zoe James -- 9. Inside white : racism, social relations and ethnicity in English prison / Rod Earle -- 10. New directions and new generations : old and new racism? / Coretta Phillips and Colin Webster.

The original essays in this much-needed collection broadly assess the contemporary patterns of crime as related to immigration, race, and ethnicity. Immigration and Crime covers both a variety of immigrant groups--mainly from Asia, the Caribbean, and Latin America--and a variety of topics including: victimization, racial conflict, juvenile delinquency, exposure to violence, homicide, drugs, gangs, and border violence.The volume provides important insights about past understandings of immigration and crime, many based on theories that have proven to be untrue or racially biased, as well as offering new scholarship on salient topics. Overall, the contributors argue that fears of immigrant crime are largely unfounded, as immigrants are themselves often more likely to be the victims of discrimination, stigmatization, and crime rather than the perpetrators.Contributors: Avraham Astor, Carl L. Bankston III, Robert J. Bursik, Jr., Roberto G. Gonzales, Sang Hea Kil, Golnaz Komaie, Jennifer Lee, Matthew T. Lee, Ramiro Martínez, Jr., Cecilia Menjívar, Jeffrey D. Morenoff, Charlie V. Morgan, Amie L. Nielsen, Rubén G. Rumbaut, Rosaura Tafoya-Estrada, Abel Valenzuela, Jr., Min Zhou

The groundbreaking Crime as Structured Action demonstrates that to understand crime, we must understand how crime operates through a complex series of gender, race, sexual, and class practices In the second edition of this powerful book, Messerschmidt updates both structured action theory as well as several of the original case studies, and he includes a new case study that further brings structured action theory to life. This edition also features expanded discussions of whiteness and sexuality and their relationships to crime

AbstractScholars who study rap music have long expressed concerns that criticism of the genre is inextricably linked to stereotypes of young Black men in the United States. Yet minimal research has empirically examined how rap music is linked to race in ways that legitimize and maintain anti‐Black attitudes, particularly attitudes related to crime. This article reviews how scholars have typically challenged seemingly racialized concerns about rap music before surveying the handful of studies that empirically examine attitudes related to rap music, race, and crime. In so doing, this essay highlights a growing need for broader conceptualizations of race/ethnicity and social control.