Understanding Race and CrimeMcGraw-Hill Education (UK), 2007 M07 16 - 256 páginas
The book provides a conceptual framework in which racism, race and crime might be better understood. It traces the historical origins of how thinking about crime came to be associated with racism and how fears and anxieties about race and crime become rooted in places destabilized by rapid social change. The book questions whether race and ethnicity alone are significant enough factors to explain differing offending and victimization patterns between ethnic groups. Issues examined include:
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Contenido
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race place and fear of crime | 26 |
Chapter 4 Offending and victimisation | 43 |
Chapter 5 Racist violence | 67 |
Chapter 6 Race policing and disorder | 90 |
difference or discrimination? | 110 |
family schooling and peer groups | 127 |
Chapter 9 The AfricanAmerican underclass and the American Dream | 146 |
the racial state and genocide | 170 |
some concluding thoughts | 194 |
References | 203 |
Index | 223 |
Back cover | 240 |
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Página 116 - The Contracting Parties confirm that genocide, whether committed in time of peace or in time of war, is a crime under international law which they undertake to prevent and to punish.
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