NCJ Number
159917
Editor(s)
D Cook,
B Hudson
Date Published
1993
Length
187 pages
Annotation
Focusing on race, crime, racism, and criminal justice, these eight papers critique existing research on race and criminal justice and its usefulness in policy development in the United Kingdom, present theoretical advances in criminology and sociology, and examine the methodological implications of applying such theory to future research.
Abstract
The papers present a range of criminological perspectives within which race and crime have been discussed. Individual papers discuss issues such as competing methods of ethnic classification, the definition of racial and ethnic data in the records of criminal justice agencies, the development of antiracism, the relationship between race and wider sociologies of disadvantage, and political issues related to crime and race. Topics include the contributions of administrative criminology, radical realism, and critical criminology; indirect and direct racial discrimination in the criminal justice system; case studies dealing with issues of what is racial and what is not; racial issues related to psychological evaluation in the justice system; classification systems in three probation services; the problem of being a white researcher; and class analysis in criminology. Notes and approximately 250 references