Synopses & Reviews
The twelve papers in this volume examine how and why inequality affects the patterns of crime and criminal justice. The contributors evaluate the merits of various theoretical ideas, debates, and controversies; document the dynamics of inequality in varied crime settings; examine methodologies used in exploring the crime-inequality relationship; and set forth new research and policy agendas for future work. The first two papers deal with race. Then, three papers consider the relationship between unemployment and crime, the effect of subordinate position on criminal outcomes, and age patterns in delinquency and crime. The next three papers all address gender and crime. The following paper deals with crime and inequality in Eastern Europe. The final three papers take us into the realms of technology, ecology, and philosophy, and are devoted to various strategies deployed to control crime.
Synopsis
These essays examine how and why inequality affects the patterning of crime and criminal justice. They evaluate the merits of various theoretical ideas, debates, and controversies regarding crime and inequality; document the dynamics of inequality in varied crime settings; examine methodologies used in exploring the crime-inequality relationship; and set forth new research and policy agendas for future work.
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A Stanford University Press classic.
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A vigorous, new examination of the relationship between crime and social inequality.
Synopsis
This book is a vigorous, new examination of the relationship between crime and social inequality. It addresses the question of how and why inequality affects the patterns of crime and criminal justice in the way it does. The contributors evaluate the merits of various theoretical ideas, debates, and controversies; document the dynamics of inequality in varied crime settings; examine methodologies used in exploring the crime-inequality relationship; and set forth new research and policy agendas for future work.
Table of Contents
Introduction; 1. Criminal inequality in America: patterns and consequences John Hagan and Ruth Peterson; 2. Race, crime, and urban inequality Robert Sampson and William Julius Wilson; 3. Unemployment and crime rate fluctuations in the post-World War II United States: statistical time-series properties and alternative models Ken Land, David Cantor and Stephen T. Russell; 4. Ethnography, inequality, and crime in the low-income community Martín Sánchez Jankowski; 5. Age-inequality and property crime: the effects of age-linked stratification and status-attainment processes on patterns of criminality across the life course Darrell Steffensmeier and Emilie Andersen Allan; 6. Crime and inequality in eighteenth-century London John Beattie; 7. Gender, race, and the pathways to delinquency: an interactionist explanation Karen Heimer; 8. Gender inequality and violence against women: the case of murder William Bailey and Ruth Peterson; 9. Crime, inequality, and justice in Eastern Europe: anomic, domination, and revolutionary change Joachim Savelsberg; 10. The engineering of social control: the search for the silver bullet Gary T. Marx; 11. Law, crime, and inequality: the regulatory state Peter C. Yeager; 12. Inequality and republican criminology John Braithwaite.