African American Classics in Criminology and Criminal Justice
- Shaun L Gabbidon - Penn State Harrisburg
- Helen Taylor Greene - Texas Southern University
- Vernetta D Young - Howard University, USA
November 2001 | 416 pages | SAGE Publications, Inc
This anthology provides a collection of classic articles in criminology/criminal justice written by black scholars and researchers beginning with W E B Dubois up through Lee Brown, the current mayor of Houston, TX. Articles focus on crime and the black community in social, economic, and political contexts. Never before collected in a single volume, this book offers a chronology of late 19th and 20th century perspectives from African-American scholars who, until recently, have not had a major voice in the development of criminological theory and social policy.
Anne Thomas Sulton
Foreword
Introduction
Vernetta D. Young
Pedagogical Reconstruction: Incorporating African American Persepectives Into the Curriculum
Part I: Historical Classics
Ida B. Wells-Barnett
Southern Horrors: Lynch Law in All Its Phases
W.E.B. Du Bois
The Negro Criminal
Monroe N. Work
Crime Among the Negros of Chicago: A Social Study
W.E.B. Du Bois
The Spawn of Slavery: The Convict-Lease System in the South
Monroe N. Work
Negro Criminality in the South
E. Franklin Frazier
Rebellious Youth
Earl R. Moses
Community Factors in Negro Delinquency
Earl R. Moses
Differentials in Crime Rates Between Negros and Whites, Based on Comparisons of Four Socio-Economically Equated Areas
Part II: Contemporary Classics
A. Leon Higginbotham, Jr.
Unequal Justice in the State Criminal Justice System
Robert Staples
White Racism, Black Crime, and American Justice: An Application of the Colonial Model to Explain Crime and Race
Vernetta D. Young
Women, Race, and Crime
Darnell F. Hawkins
Beyond Anomalies: Rethinking the Conflict Perspective on Race and Criminal Punishment
Darnell F. Hawkins
Devalued Lives and Racial Stereotypes: Ideological Barriers to the Prevention of Family Violence Among Blacks
Lee P. Brown
Community Policing: A Practical Guide for Police Officials
Daniel E. Georges-Abeyie
Race, Ethnicity, and the Spatial Dynamic: Toward a Realistic Study of Black Crime, Crime Victimization, and Criminal Justice Processing of Blacks
William Oliver
Black Males and Social Problems: Prevention Through Afrocentric Socialization
Coramae Richey Mann
Minority and Female: A Criminal Justice Double Bind
Katheryn K. Russell
Development of a Black Criminology and the Role of the Black Criminologist
Elijah Anderson
The Code of the Streets
Becky Tatum
The Colonial Model as a Theoretical Explanation of Crime and Delinquency
Paul Butler
Racially Based Jury Nullification: Black Power in the Criminal Justice System
Kartheryn K. Russell
The Racial Hoax as Crime: The Law as Afirmation
Index
About the Editors
About the Contributors
"This collection of writings is crucially important, in part, because it reminds us the theoretical paradigms of these and other African American scholars are excluded when crime, its causes, and its control are discussed by criminologists, criminal justice practitioners, and policy makers. To understand crime fully, the perspectives advanced by these scholars must become an integral part of discussions about who is a criminal and which public policies will best control crime."
From the forward