Book Review

without careful reading, the contribution to knowledge made by Race and Crime is not easily grasped. initial reading of the book might leave one wondering what new insights are added to the already existing and extensive literature on the controversial issue of race and crime (kalunta-Crumpton 2012). This expansive attention to the subject seems most apparent in the United States and, to a lesser but notable extent, in the United kingdom. So, in the midst of the abundant scholarship, what new insights is Race and Crime offering to academics, policy makers and practitioners with interest in race and crime? For this reader, there are three core arguments that Rowe offers. The first speaks to the over-engagement of race and crime in criminological discourse within and beyond the academic sphere. Rowe argues that there has been evidence of ‘too much critical engagement between race and crime in the continuing development of theoretical approaches to criminal behaviour ’ (p. 179). An outcome of the preoccu-pation with race and offending behaviour has been the enduring processes of raciali-zation of crime in different contexts and periods, which, in turn, have had negative consequences on minority ethnic groups. The second argument is that the fixation o