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Book SynopsisThe twelve papers in this volume examine how and why inequality affects the patterns of crime and criminal justice. The contributors evaluate the merits of various theoretical ideas, debates, and controversies and document the dynamics of inequality in varied crime settings.
Table of ContentsIntroduction 1. Criminal inequality in America: patterns and consequences John Hagan and Ruth Peterson 2. Race, crime, and urban inequality Robert Sampson and William Julius Wilson 3. Unemployment and crime rate fluctuations in the post-World War II United States: statistical time-series properties and alternative models Ken Land, David Cantor and Stephen T. Russell 4. Ethnography, inequality, and crime in the low-income community Marti;n Sanchez Jankowski 5. Age-inequality and property crime: the effects of age-linked stratification and status-attainment processes on patterns of criminality across the life course Darrell Steffensmeier and Emilie Andersen Allan 6. Crime and inequality in eighteenth-century London John Beattie 7. Gender, race, and the pathways to delinquency: an interactionist explanation Karen Heimer 8. Gender inequality and violence against women: the case of murder William Bailey and Ruth Peterson 9. Crime, inequality, and justice in Eastern Europe: anomic, domination, and revolutionary change Joachim Savelsberg 10. The engineering of social control: the search for the silver bullet Gary T. Marx 11. Law, crime, and inequality: the regulatory state Peter C. Yeager 12. Inequality and republican criminology John Braithwaite.
