Crime, inequality, and the state /

This volume examines the role of poverty and inequality among the social dynamics that are shaping changing patterns of crime. It presents an integrated perspective on crime and state response in light of developments such as the hardening of poverty in American cities and the country's changing economic structure in a globalizing world. The volume includes works of Robert Sampson, William Julius Wilson, Michael Tonry, Jonathan Simon, Malcolm Feeley, Lorraine Gelsthorpe, Anthony Bottoms, John Hagedorn, Elijhah Anderson, Rosemary Gartner, Lawrence Friedman, Jurgen Habermas, Robert Putnam, Robin Kelley, Tom Tyler, Paul Wiles, Frank Zimring and Elliott Currie. This book has big US potential with a probable 75% of sales to US. Why has crime been dropping but imprisonment continuing to grow? This thoughtful and well-edited collection of readings focuses on explaining changing patterns of crime and criminal careers as well as state response through criminal justice policy. Countering the neo-conservative argument that crime is committed in a quest for thrills or because it pays, this volume builds on studies by Sampson and Wilson, Elijah Anderson and others, to continue the work of "bringing inequality and poverty back in" to policy debates about the causes of crime and what form state response should take. Examining changing patterns of crime and gang activity against a backdrop of deindustrialization and the hardening of urban poverty during the 1980s and then the economic upturn of more recent years, this volume probes changing patterns of violence -- especially among juveniles -- in center cities, gang activity and hate crimes during the late 1980s and 1990s. Vivid enthnography, biography, a play and musical lyrics are used along with qualitative and quantitative empirical studies to illustrate key points. Hard numbers are accompanied by the faces and voices of the individuals and families whose lives hang in the balance. Violent crime has now been dropping in mostINcludes bibliographical references and index.This volume examines the role of poverty and inequality among the social dynamics that are shaping changing patterns of crime. It presents an integrated perspective on crime and state response in light of developments such as the hardening of poverty in American cities and the country's changing economic structure in a globalizing world. The volume includes works of Robert Sampson, William Julius Wilson, Michael Tonry, Jonathan Simon, Malcolm Feeley, Lorraine Gelsthorpe, Anthony Bottoms, John Hagedorn, Elijhah Anderson, Rosemary Gartner, Lawrence Friedman, Jurgen Habermas, Robert Putnam, Robin Kelley, Tom Tyler, Paul Wiles, Frank Zimring and Elliott Currie. This book has big US potential with a probable 75% of sales to US. Why has crime been dropping but imprisonment continuing to grow? This thoughtful and well-edited collection of readings focuses on explaining changing patterns of crime and criminal careers as well as state response through criminal justice policy. Countering the neo-conservative argument that crime is committed in a quest for thrills or because it pays, this volume builds on studies by Sampson and Wilson, Elijah Anderson and others, to continue the work of "bringing inequality and poverty back in" to policy debates about the causes of crime and what form state response should take. Examining changing patterns of crime and gang activity against a backdrop of deindustrialization and the hardening of urban poverty during the 1980s and then the economic upturn of more recent years, this volume probes changing patterns of violence -- especially among juveniles -- in center cities, gang activity and hate crimes during the late 1980s and 1990s. Vivid enthnography, biography, a play and musical lyrics are used along with qualitative and quantitative empirical studies to illustrate key points. Hard numbers are accompanied by the faces and voices of the individuals and families whose lives hang in the balance. Violent crime has now been dropping in mos