Violent crime : assessing race and ethnic differences , None by None, None, Hawkins, Darnell Felix, 1946- instant download

Violent crime : assessing race and ethnic differences , None by None, None, Hawkins, Darnell Felix, 1946- instant download

1 online resource (xxv, 432 pages) :, Analysts have long noted that some societies have much higher rates of criminal violence than others. This series of essays explores the extent and causes of racial and ethnic differences in violent crime in the United States and several other contemporary societies, Includes bibliographical references (pages 355-407) and indexes, Homicide Studies -- Homicide risk and level of victimization in two concentrated poverty enclaves: a black/Hispanic comparison / Harold M. Rose and Paula D. McClain -- Moving beyond black and white: African American, Haitian and Latino homicides in Miami / Ramiro Martinez, Jr. -- Homicide in Los Angeles County: a study of Latino victimization / Marc Riedel -- Economic correlates of racial and ethnic disparity in homicide: Houston, 1945-1994 / Victoria Brewer Titterington and Kelly R. Damphouse -- The race, ethnicity, and poverty nexus of violent crime: reconciling differences in Chicago's community area homicide rates / Calvin C. Johnson and Chanchalat Chanhatasilpa -- Other Contexts, Settings and Forms of Violence -- Sanction effects, violence and Native American street youth / Bill McCarthy and John Hagan -- Ethnicity and interpersonal violence in a New Zealand birth cohort / David M. Fergusson -- Racial victimization in England and Wales / Ben Bowling and Coretta Phillips -- Race, gender and woman battering / Evan Stark -- Gender entrapment and African American women: an analysis of race, ethnicity, gender and intimate violence / Beth E. Richie -- Explaining Racial and Ethnic Differences -- How can the relationship between race and violence be explained / David P. Farrington, Rolf Loeber and Magda Stouthamer-Loeber -- Race effects and conceptual ambiguity in violence research: bringing inequality back in / Marino A. Bruce and Vincent J. Roscigno -- The violent black male: conceptions of race in criminological theories / Jeanette Covington -- The structural-cultural perspective: a theory of black…