This review, published on the twenty-fifth anniversary of the publication of Code of the Street
(1999), considers the legacies of Elijah Anderson's groundbreaking analysis of the …

This article reviews and synthesizes literature on the historical trauma of African Americans
with an emphasis on how White psychologists can integrate awareness of historical trauma …

At no time in history, and certainly in no other democratic society, have prisons been filled so
quickly and to such capacity than in the United States. And nowhere has this growth been …

" The best organized and most comprehensive theory textbook to use for both graduate and
undergraduate students. It provides historical context to the theories, and the authors make it …

Dominant theoretical explanations of racial disparities in criminal offending overlook a key
risk factor associated with race: interpersonal racial discrimination. Building on recent …

For many years, notes Alex Piquero, youth of color have been overrepresented at every
stage of the US juvenile justice system. As with racial disparities in a wide variety of social …

A little more than a century ago, the famous social scientist WEB Du Bois asserted that a true
understanding of African American offending must be grounded in the" real conditions" of …

Criminology: Explaining Crime and Its Context, Ninth Edition, is a highly acclaimed textbook
offering a broad perspective on criminological theory. It provides students of criminology and …

The study outlined in this article drew on Elijah Anderson's (1999) code of the street
perspective to examine the impact of neighborhood street culture on violent delinquency …

This book provides a sociological perspective on crime and criminal justice by treating social
structure and social inequality as central themes in the study of crime—and major factors in …