Poverty, Ethnicity, And Violent Crime

Jr. Short James F. (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

260 Seiten

2019
Routledge (Verlag)
978-0-367-31738-6 (ISBN)

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This book brings together statistical trends and decades of ethnographic research on violent crime and gangs, focusing on the role of poverty and ethnic status in violent crime. It can serve as a text or as supplementary reading for a variety of criminology courses.

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 scie

James F. Short Jr. is professor emeritus in the Department of Sociology at Washington State University at Pullman and president of the American Society of Criminology.

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

Erscheinungsdatum	02.09.2019
Verlagsort	London
Sprache	englisch
Maße	152 x 229 mm
Gewicht	453 g
Themenwelt	Recht / Steuern ► Strafrecht ► Kriminologie
Themenwelt	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie
ISBN-10	0-367-31738-9 / 0367317389
ISBN-13	978-0-367-31738-6 / 9780367317386
Zustand	Neuware