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Divergent Social Worlds: Neighborhood Crime and the Racial-Spatial Divide
More than half a century after the first Jim Crow laws were dismantled, the majority of urban neighborhoods in the United States remain segregated by race. The degree of social and economic advantage or disadvantage that each community experiences--particularly its crime rate--is most often a refle... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2010 -
The Many Colors of Crime: Inequalities of Race, Ethnicity, and Crime in America (New Perspectives in Crime, Deviance, and Law #2)
In this authoritative volume, race and ethnicity are themselves considered as central organizing principles in why, how, where and by whom crimes are committed and enforced. The contributors argue that dimensions of race and ethnicity condition the very laws that make certain behaviors criminal, the... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2006