Race and Crime: A Text/Reader (SAGE Text/Reader Series in Criminology and Criminal Justice)

About this book

A unique text/reader that provides an overview of both historical and contemporary race and crime issues This innovative text/reader from pre-eminent authors and researchers Helen Taylor Greene and Shaun Gabbidon combines textual material with recent carefully edited articles from well-known and emerging scholars. The articleshave beenpublished in leading criminology and criminal justice journals such as Crime & Delinquency Criminology Journal of Research in Crime and Delinquency Justice Quarterly and Theoretical Criminology. The book explores historical and contemporary issues such as race as a social construct; the treatment of minorities and immigrants in American history; explanations of race and crime; disproportionate arrest victimization and confinement; racial profiling; wrongful convictions; and the "War on Drugs."