Violence at the Intersection: The Interlocking Impact of Race, Ethnicity, Gender, and Class on Risk and Resilience [Paperback]

Violence at the Intersection: The Interlocking Impact of Race, Ethnicity, Gender, and Class on Risk and Resilience builds upon and expands recent scholarship on the intersectionality of race, ethnicity, gender/gender identity, and class and their multiplicative effects on violent offending and victimization.

Toya Z. Like is an associate dean and professor of Criminal Justice and Criminology at the University of MissouriKansas City. Like's research interests include multi-level assessments of risks for violent victimization, racial and ethnic variations in victimization, and the intersection between gender, race, and class as it relates to violence and justice outcomes. Her work is featured in peer-reviewed journals such as Crime & Delinquency, Deviant Behavior, and Violence & Victims, and also in books such as The Many Colors of Crime and Images of Color, Images of Crime. She earned her B.S., M.A., and Ph.D. from the University of MissouriSt. Louis.?

Violence at the Intersection: The Interlocking Impact of Race, Ethnicity, Gender, and Class on Risk and Resilience builds upon and expands recent scholarship on the intersectionality of race, ethnicity, gender/gender identity, and class and their multiplicative effects on violent offending and victimization. Specifically, the work examines how these intersections of identity not only affect risks for experiences with violence but also account for the development and expansion of social capital in the form of resilience and human agency among those at risk.

The results of the research provide a critical assessment of how embodied identities are commonly used to assess those at risk while largely ignoring that these individuals are simultaneously at resilc)