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Poverty, ethnicity, and violent crime

Title
  1. Poverty, ethnicity, and violent crime / James F. Short.
Published by
  1. Boulder, Colo. : WestviewPress, 1997.
Author
  1. Short, James F.

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Description
  1. xii, 244 pages : illustrations; 23 cm.
Summary
  1. "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, 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."--Jacket.
Series statement
  1. Crime & society
Uniform title
  1. Crime & society (Boulder, Colo.)
Subject
  1. Violent crimes > United States
  2. Poor > United States
  3. Ethnicity > United States
  4. Social problems > United States
  5. 71.65 criminality as a social problem
  6. Ethnicity
  7. Poor
  8. Social conditions
  9. Social problems
  10. Violent crimes
  11. Armut
  12. Soziale Situation
  13. Ethnizität
  14. Gewaltdelikt
  15. Armoede
  16. Etnisch bewustzijn
  17. Geweldsdelicten
  18. Sociale problemen
  19. Pauvreté > États-Unis
  20. Crimes et criminels > États-Unis
  21. Problèmes sociaux > États-Unis
  22. United States > Social conditions
  23. United States
  24. USA
Contents
  1. Foreword / John Hagan -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Measuring Violent Crime: Trends and Social Distributions -- 3. "Levels of Explanation" of Violent Crime -- 4. Community and Neighborhood Contexts of Violent Crime -- 5. The Role of Unsupervised Youth Groups in Violence -- 6. Levels of Explanation of Violent Behavior Committed in Groups -- 7. Explaining Violent Crime: The Macrosocial Level of Explanation -- 8. The Individual Level of Explanation: Biobehavioral Influences and Control -- 9. Explaining Violence: Learning, Personality, and Social Contexts of Poverty, Race, and Ethnicity -- 10. Controlling Violent Crime.
Owning institution
  1. Princeton University Library
Bibliography (note)
  1. Includes bibliographical references and index.