| Poverty, Ethnicity, And Violent Crime Contributor(s): Short, James F., Jr. (Author) |
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ISBN: 0813320143 ISBN-13: 9780813320144 Publisher: Routledge OUR PRICE: $63.64 Product Type: Paperback Published: April 1997 Annotation: Author Short details the implications surrounding the causes of crime for national policy. His work concludes that violent crime in America is more strongly associated with poverty than with race or ethnicity and patterns of violence are changing. Short's comprehensive survey brings together statistical trends and decades of ethnographic research on violent crime and gangs. This book can serve as a text or as supplementary reading for a variety of criminology courses. Part of the series, Crime & Society. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Social Science | Criminology - Social Science | Poverty & Homelessness - Social Science | Sociology - General |
| Dewey: 364.256 |
| LCCN: 97000507 |
| Lexile Measure: 1470 |
| Series: Crime and Society |
| Physical Information: 0.59" H x 5.93" W x 8.93" (0.70 lbs) 256 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: Violent crime in America is more strongly associated with poverty and with changing social and economic conditions than with race or ethnicity, and patterns of violence are changing. These are among the conclusions of Poverty, Ethnicity, and Violent Crime, a searching analysis that draws on scholarly research from all the social and behavioral sciences. By framing his analysis in terms of different levels of explanation, James Short is able to identify fundamental causal conditions and processes that result in violent crime. The book also examines current policies and political and scholarly controversies concerning the control of violent crime. This book can serve as a text or as supplementary reading for a variety of criminology courses. |