2 Conceptualizing Race and Ethnicity in Studies of Crime and Criminal Justice

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents vii
3. Acknowledgments xi
4. Introduction: Inequalities of Race, Ethnicity, and Crime in America 1
5. 1 Cultural Mechanisms and Killing Fields: A Revised Theory of Community-Level Racial Inequality 8
6. Part I. Constructs and Conceptual Approaches
7. 2 Conceptualizing Race and Ethnicity in Studies of Crime and Criminal Justice 39
8. 3 Demythologizing the “Criminalblackman”: The Carnival Mirror 54
9. 4 Race and the Justice Workforce: Toward a System Perspective 67
10. Part II. Populations and Intersectionalities
11. 5 Toward an Understanding of the Lower Rates of Homicide in Latino versus Black Neighborhoods: A Look at Chicago 91
12. 6 Extending Ethnicity and Violence Research in a Multiethnic City: Haitian, African American, and Latino Nonlethal Violence 108
13. 7 Crime and Deviance in the “Black Belt”: African American Youth in Rural and Nonrural Developmental Contexts 122
14. 8 Crime at the Intersections: Race, Class, Gender, and Violent Offending 138
15. 9 Race, Inequality, and Gender Violence: A Contextual Examination 157
16. Part III. Contexts and Settings
17. 10 Is the Gap between Black and White Arrest Rates Narrowing? National Trends for Personal Contact Crimes, 1960 to 2002 179
18. 11 Race, Labor Markets, and Neighborhood Violence 199
19. 12 Drug Markets in Minority Communities: Consequences for Mexican American Youth Gangs 221
20. 13 Perceptions of Crime and Safety in Racially and Economically Distinct Neighborhoods 237
21. 14 Neighborhood, Race, and the Economic Consequences of Incarceration in New York City, 1985–1996 256
22. Part IV. Mechanisms and Processes
23. 15 Creating Racial Disadvantage: The Case of Crack Cocaine 277
24. 16 Transforming Communities: Formal and Informal Mechanisms of Social Control 295
25. 17 Toward a Developmental and Comparative Conflict Theory of Race, Ethnicity, and Perceptions of Criminal Injustice 313
26. 18 Race and Neighborhood Codes of Violence 334
27. Conclusion: A Deeper Understanding of Race, Ethnicity, Crime, and Criminal Justice 357
28. Bibliography 367
29. Contributors 413
30. Index 419