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SAGE Journal User Guide

Wright, B.R., & Younts, C.W. (2009). Reconsidering the Relationship between Race and Crime: Positive and Negative Predictors of Crime among African American Youth. Journal of Research in Crime and Delinquency, 46(3), 327-352.

1. Explain the concept of cross-cancelling mechanisms.

2. Describe 2 positive linkages posited by social control theory that serve to explain differential criminal behavior between blacks and whites.

3. How does strain theory explain differential criminal offending between blacks and whites?

4. Describe 2 factors associated with decreased criminal offending among blacks.

Piquero, A., & Brame, R.W. (2008). Assessing the Race–Crime and Ethnicity–Crime Relationship in a Sample of Serious Adolescent Delinquents. Crime & Delinquency, 54(3), 390-422.

1. What are the 2 competing explanations for the racial disparities in arrest rates?

2. Describe the basic premise of the differential involvement hypothesis.

3. What did Hindelang discover in his research into the relationship between race and crime?

Peterson, R.D., & Krivo, L.J. (2009). Segregated Spatial Locations, Race-Ethnic Composition, and Neighborhood Violent Crime. The ANNALS of the American Academy of Political and Social Science, 623(1), 93-107.

1. How are spatial effects likely to be racialized and contribute to higher levels of crime and violence in larger urban areas?

2. Briefly describe the conclusions reached by the authors of this study with respect to neighborhood conditions and violence across neighborhoods?

3. What were the implications offered by the authors pertaining to the results obtained?

 

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Miller, J. (2002). The strengths and limits of ‘doing gender’ for understanding street crime. Theoretical Criminology, 6(4), 433-460.

1. What is meant by viewing gender as situated action or situated accomplishment?

2. How has the theoretical approach of 'doing gender' come up short within the field of criminology?

3. Describe one way women use gender as a criminal resource.

Steffensmeier, D., Zhong, H., Ackerman, J., Schwartz, & Agha, S. (2006). Gender Gap Trends for Violent Crimes, 1980 to 2003: A UCR-NCVS Comparison. Feminist Criminology, 1(1), 72-98.

1. What is one plausible explanation provided by social scientists for the perceived increases in female violence?

2. Explain how the elasticity of violence definition might affect the perceived levels of female violence?

3. How have changes in legal definitions of crime and increased punitiveness of legal sanctions affected the propensity of female arrest rates?

McPhail, B.A., & DiNitto, D.M. (2005). Prosecutorial Perspectives on Gender-Bias Hate Crimes. Violence Against Women, 11(9), 1162-1185.

1. What is the rationale of opponents to including violence against women as a hate crime?

2. What is the rational of supporters for the inclusion of violence against women as hate crimes?

3. What were the 4 primary reasons for the prosecutors in the study failing to view the hate crime paradigm as a useful tool in charging crimes against women?