NCJ Number
155101
Editor(s)
A T Sulton
Date Published
1994
Length
227 pages
Annotation
Written by African-American criminologists and criminal justice practitioners, these 15 papers focus on urban crime, including youth violence, gangs, victimization of foreign visitors, police brutality, and AIDS in correctional facilities, and makes recommendations for urban crime control and prevention.
Abstract
Individual papers focus on the current status of African- American scholars in criminology and criminal justice, crime among traditional and Christianized Igbo in Nigeria, and the colonial model as a theoretical explanation of crime and delinquency. Additional papers examine issues of self-esteem and juvenile delinquency among black Americans, drugs and violence in youth gangs, black female delinquency, the relationship between female-headed black households and chronic problem behavior among juveniles, and police brutality from the perspective of black Americans. Further papers discuss capital punishment and its racial impacts, the impact of AIDS on minority inmates, policy approaches to reducing the involvement of African-American males in the criminal justice system, and the prevention of crime through the economic development of urban neighborhoods. Tables, map, photographs, and chapter reference lists