Race and Crime
Fourth Edition
SAGE Journal Articles
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Questions to consider:
- What is “race”? How did this concept change in different historical contexts?
- How does the relation between genes and group membership race in the study of crime?
- What is the flaw of past research of race and racial classification? How can it be rectified?
Questions to consider:
- Why is the research on the relation between racial composition and violence important?
- What are the characteristics of Latino-origin group? How do they relate to community violence?
- What does this sentence in the conclusion mean: “we must move beyond a strictly structural approach toward more integrative frameworks that incorporate the cultural and social differences between groups”?
Questions to consider:
- Can you find some real-world examples of “racialization of crime”?
- How does IC works to change White’s view about Black offending and the endorsement of noncrime stereotypes?
- What types of ICs are most effective and why?