African American Classics in Criminology and Criminal Justice / Edition 1

by Shaun L. Gabbidon, Helen Taylor-Greene, Vernetta D. Young

Overview

From W.E.B. Dubois through Lee Brown, this anthology provides a collection of the key articles in criminology and criminal justice written by black scholars. Available in a single volume for the first time, the articles collected in this book reflect the voices of African-American scholars and display the diversity of perspectives sought after in today's academic community. Crime in the African-American community is examined from social, economic and political perspectives, and the historical context of each article is provided by the editors. Spanning the 20th century, these works present a historical chronology of African-American views on crime and its control with theoretical perspectives that have often been tangential to mainstream scholarship.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780761924333
Publisher:	SAGE Publications
Publication date:	09/27/2001
Edition description:	New Edition
Pages:	416
Product dimensions:	7.00(w) x 10.00(h) x 0.85(d)

About the Author

Shaun L. Gabbidon is Distinguished Professor of Criminal Justice in the School of Public Affairs at Penn State Harrisburg. He earned his Ph D 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. Professor Gabbidon is the author of more than 100 scholarly publications, including 60 peer-reviewed articles and 11 books.

Helen Taylor Greene is Professor of Administration of Justice in the Barbara Jordan–Mickey Leland School of Public Affairs (SPA) at Texas Southern University (TSU). She completed her BS in Sociology at Howard University, her MS in the Administration of Justice at American University, and both her MA in Political Science and Ph D in Criminology at the University of Maryland, College Park. Her areas of research include race and crime, juvenile justice, and policing. She has authored and co-authored books, has peer-reviewed articles and book chapters, and has served as lead editor for the Encyclopedia of Race and Crime (2009).

Vernetta D. Young is Associate Professor in the Department of Sociology and Anthropology at Howard University. She completed her B.A. in Sociology at the University of Maryland, College Park, and attended Florida State University before completing her Ph.D. in Criminal Justice at the State University of New York at Albany. She has also taught at American University and the University of Maryland, College Park.

Table of Contents

Foreword - Anne Thomas Sulton
Introduction
Pedagogical Reconstruction: Incorporating African American Persepectives Into the Curriculum - Vernetta D. Young
Part I: Historical Classics
Southern Horrors: Lynch Law in All Its Phases - Ida B. Wells-Barnett
The Negro Criminal - W.E.B. Du Bois
Crime Among the Negros of Chicago: A Social Study - Monroe N. Work
The Spawn of Slavery: The Convict-Lease System in the South - W.E.B. Du Bois
Negro Criminality in the South - Monroe N. Work
Rebellious Youth - E. Franklin Frazier
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 - Earl R. Moses
Part II: Contemporary Classics
Unequal Justice in the State Criminal Justice System - A. Leon Higginbotham, Jr.
White Racism, Black Crime, and American Justice: An Application of the Colonial Model to Explain Crime and Race - Robert Staples
Women, Race, and Crime - Vernetta D. Young
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 - Darnell F. Hawkins
Community Policing: A Practical Guide for Police Officials - Lee P. Brown
Race, Ethnicity, and the Spatial Dynamic: Toward a Realistic Study of Black Crime, Crime Victimization, and Criminal Justice Processing of Blacks - Daniel E. Georges-Abeyie
Black Males and Social Problems: Prevention Through Afrocentric Socialization - William Oliver
Minority and Female: A Criminal Justice Double Bind - Coramae Richey Mann
Development of a Black Criminology and the Role of the Black Criminologist - Katheryn K. Russell
The Code of the Streets - Elijah Anderson
The Colonial Model as a Theoretical Explanation of Crime and Delinquency - Becky Tatum
Racially Based Jury Nullification: Black Power in the Criminal Justice System - Paul Butler
The Racial Hoax as Crime: The Law as Afirmation - Kartheryn K. Russell
Index
About the Editors
About the Contributors

Editorial Reviews

"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."

Anne Thomas Sulton