James F. Short Jr.

Poverty, Ethnicity, And Violent Crime

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This book brings together statistical trends and decades of ethnographic research on violent crime and gangs, focusing on the role of poverty and ethnic status in violent crime. It can serve as a text or as supplementary reading for a variety of criminology courses.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Routledge
• Seitenzahl: 258
• Erscheinungstermin: 5. September 2019
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 19mm
• Gewicht: 531g
• ISBN-13: 9780367317386
• ISBN-10: 0367317389
• Artikelnr.: 57780901

Autorenporträt

James F. Short Jr.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction
Measuring Violent Crime: Trends and Social Distributions
"Levels of Explanation" of Violent Crime
Community and Neighborhood Contexts of Violent Crime
The Role of Unsupervised Youth Groups in Violence
Levels of Explanation of Violent Behavior Committed in Groups
Explaining Violent Crime: The Macrosocial Level of Explanation
The Individual Level of Explanation: Biobehavioral Influences and Control
Explaining Violence: Learning, Personality, and Social Contexts of Poverty, Race, and Ethnicity
Controlling Violent Crime