Race, Crime, and Justice A Reader [Paperback]

A comprehensive collection of the essential writings on race and crime, this important Readerspans more than a century and clearly demonstrates the long-standing difficulties minorities have faced with the justice system. The editors skillfully draw on the classic work of such thinkers as W.E.B. DuBois and Gunnar Myrdal as well as the contemporary work of scholars such as Angela Davis, Joan Petersilia, John Hagen and Robert Sampson. This anthology also covers all of the major topics and issues from policing, courts, drugs and urban violence to inequality, racial profiling and capital punishment. This is required reading for courses in criminology and criminal justice, legal studies, sociology, social work and race.Race and Crime: Early Writings  1. W. E. B. Du Bois (1901) The Spawn of Slavery: The Convict Lease System in the South.   2. Norman Hayner (1938) Social Factors in Oriental Crime American Journal of Sociology.   3. Norman Hayner (1942) Variability in the Criminal Behavior of American Indians.   4. Oliver Cox (1945) Lynching and the Status Quo.   Race, Crime, and theDisproportionality Debate  5. Alfred Blumstein (1982) On Racial Disproportionality of United States' Prison Populations.   6. Ruth Peterson and John Hagan (1984) Changing Conceptions of Race: Toward an Account of Anomalous Findings of Sentencing Research.   7. John DiLulio (1996) My Black Crime Problem, and Ours.   8. Matt Delisi and Robert Regoli (1999) Race, Conventional Crime, and Criminal Justice: The Declining Importance of Skin Color.   Women, Race, and Crime  9. Hans Von Hentig (1942) The Criminality of Colored Women.   10. Jody Miller (1998) Up it Up: Gender and the Accomplishment of Street Robbery.   11. Jacqueline Huey and Michael Lynch (1996) The Image l�