Race & Crime (Key Approaches to Criminology) - Hardcover

Rowe, Michael

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1849207267 ISBN 13: 9781849207263

Publisher: SAGE Publications Ltd, 2012

Synopsis

In this original and cutting-edge new textbook, Mike Rowe explores the key topics in race and crime. Examining the main issues from a historical and comparative approach, the book fully situates arguments and ideas in a global context with contemporary examples. Encouraging readers to think critically about well-worn debates, Race & Crime covers a diverse range of issues, including:

• Representation and disproportionality
• Victimisation
• Human Rights
• Terrorism
• Popular culture
• Governance

About this title

About the Author:

Michael Rowe is Professor of Criminology at Northumbria University

Review:

In this wide-ranging and ambitious book, Michael Rowe has managed the difficult feat of being both scholarly and accessible. He provides a critical and thought-provoking analysis of criminology′s long-standing and problematic relationship to questions of race and ethnicity, and, drawing on a range of resources from the local to the global, argues convincingly that criminology should attend more closely to the harms to minority groups that result from the crimes of the powerful
David Smith
Lancaster University

In this book, Mike Rowe presents material in relation to the broad area of race and crime in new and refreshing ways. Debates traditionally featured under ′race and crime′ are given a contemporary twist, providing students, researchers, practitioners and others with challenging new insights. The material is clearly presented and very engaging
Basia Spalek
The University of Birmingham

Rowe calls for an exploration of the processes of racialization, with a particular focus on how the concepts of race and crime, in various contexts, circumstances and times, have developed, been utilized and applied to make sense of the social world. For Rowe, the concepts of race and crime have real implications as both ‘are real in their consequences’...This book provides a constructive way forward for the study of race and crime. Author: Anita Kalunta-Crumpton

In a short review, I cannot do justice to the treasury of such nuggets supporting subtle arguments in these 300 pages - well charted in every sense. But if you have ever wondered about what happens when business meets academia but never dared to find out yourself, this would be a great place to start. Author: Diana Hunter

About this edition

• Publisher: SAGE Publications Ltd
• Publication date: 2012
• ISBN 10: 1849207267
• ISBN 13: 9781849207263
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 224