African American Criminological Thought
Publisher: State University of New York Press
Published: September 22, 2000
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 224
ISBN-13: 9780791446966
Subjects: Crime & criminology; Ethnic Studies - African American Studies - General; Biography; Social Science; Ethnic Issues; United States; Sociology; USA; History; African American criminologists; African American criminologist; Criminology
Description: "This book presents the contributions of African Americans past and present to understanding crime, criminological theory, and the administration of justice. The authors devote individual chapters to African American pioneers Ida B. Wells-Barnett, W. E. B. Du Bois, E. Franklin Frazier, and Monroe N. Work, and contemporary scholars Lee P. Brown, Daniel Georges-Abeyie, Darnell F. Hawkins, Coramae Richey Mann, William Julius Wilson, and Vernetta D. Young.

Included for each individual are a biography, information on their contributions to criminological thought, and a list of selected references. A wide range of issues are covered such as lynching, the convict lease system, homicide, female crime and delinquency, terrorism, community policing, the black ethnic monolith paradigm, and explanations of criminality."--BOOK JACKET.