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Criminological Perspectives on Race and Crime

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ISBN-10: 0415874246

ISBN-13: 9780415874243

Edition: 2nd 2010 (Revised)

Authors: Shaun L. Gabbidon

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Ideal for use in either crime theory or race and crime courses, this is the only text to look at the array of explanations for crime as they relate to racial and ethnic groups and to provide insight on their reliability and validity to account for criminal behavior. Each chapter begins with a historical review of each theoretical perspective and how its original formulation and more recent derivatives account for racial/ethnic differences. The theoretical perspectives include those based on religion, biology, social disorganization/strain, subculture, labeling, conflict, social control, colonial, and feminism. This new Second Edition includes discussions of Deadly Symbiosis, critical race…    
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Book details

List price: $49.95
Edition: 2nd
Copyright year: 2010
Publisher: Routledge
Publication date: 2/19/2010
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 290
Size: 6.00" wide x 9.25" long x 0.75" tall
Weight: 0.836

Shaun L. Gabbidon is Distinguished Professor of Criminal Justice in the School of Public Affairs at Penn State Harrisburg. He earned his PhD in Criminology at Indiana University of Pennsylvania. Dr. Gabbidon has served as a fellow at Harvard University's W. E. B. Du Bois Institute for Afro-American Research and as an adjunct faculty member in the Center for Africana Studies at the University of Pennsylvania. His areas of interest include race and crime, criminal justice and criminology pedagogy, and private security.nbsp; Professor Gabbidon is the author of more than 100 scholarly publications, including 60 peer-reviewed articles and 11 books.nbsp;