Violent Crime: Assessing Race and Ethnic Differences

Table of contents

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• Violent Crime *
• Cambridge Studies in Criminology *
• Title Page *
• Contents vii
• Contributors ix
• Foreword xi
• Editor's Introduction xiii
• Violent Crime *
• Part I - Homicide Studies 1
• Chapter One - Homicide Risk and Level of Victimization in Two Concentrated Poverty Enclaves: a Black/Hispanic Comparison 3
• Chapter Two - Moving Beyond Black and White Violence: African American, Haitian, and Latino Homicides in Miami 1 22
• Chapter Three - Homicide in Los Angeles County: a Study of Latino Victimization 1 44
• Chapter Four - Economic Correlates of Racial and Ethnic Disparity in Homicide: Houston, 1945–1994 1 67
• Chapter Five - The Race/Ethnicity and Poverty Nexus of Violent Crime: Reconciling Differences in Chicago's Community Area Homicide Rates 89
• Appendix 109
• Part II - Other Contexts, Settings, and Forms of Violence 115

• Violent Crime *
• Cambridge Studies in Criminology *
• Title Page *
• Contents vii
• Contributors ix
• Foreword xi
• Editor's Introduction xiii
• Violent Crime *
• Part I - Homicide Studies 1
• Chapter One - Homicide Risk and Level of Victimization in Two Concentrated Poverty Enclaves: a Black/Hispanic Comparison 3
• Chapter Two - Moving Beyond Black and White Violence: African American, Haitian, and Latino Homicides in Miami 1 22
• Chapter Three - Homicide in Los Angeles County: a Study of Latino Victimization 1 44
• Chapter Four - Economic Correlates of Racial and Ethnic Disparity in Homicide: Houston, 1945–1994 1 67
• Chapter Five - The Race/Ethnicity and Poverty Nexus of Violent Crime: Reconciling Differences in Chicago's Community Area Homicide Rates 89
• Appendix 109
• Part II - Other Contexts, Settings, and Forms of Violence 115
• Chapter Six - Sanction Effects, Violence, and Native North American Street Youth 117
• Chapter Seven - Ethnicity and Interpersonal Violence in a New Zealand Birth Cohort 138
• Chapter Eight - Racist Victimization in England and Wales 154
• Chapter Nine - Race, Gender, and Woman Battering 171
• Chapter Ten - Gender Entrapment and African-American Women: an Analysis of Race, Ethnicity, Gender, and Intimate Violence 198
• Part III - Explaining Racial and Ethnic Differences 211
• Chapter Eleven - How Can the Relationship Between Race and Violence Be Explained? 213
• Chapter Twelve - [Race Effects] and Conceptual Ambiguity in Violence Research: Bringing Inequality Back In 238
• Chapter Thirteen - The Violent Black Male: Conceptions of Race in Criminological Theories 254
• Chapter Fourteen - The Structural-Cultural Perspective: a Theory of Black Male Violence 280
• Chapter Fifteen - A Cultural Psychology Framework for the Study of African-American Morality and Violence 303
• Chapter Sixteen - Racial Discrimination and Violence: a Longitudinal Perspective 319
• Chapter Seventeen - Honor, Class, and White Southern Violence: a Historical Perspective 331
• References 355
• Author Index 409
• Subject Index 423