An article entitled, "Dual Realities and Structural Challenges to African American Criminologists," begins the book. It reflects significant issues and challenges based on discussions among African-American criminologists over the years. In this article two African-American criminologists present their perspectives on issues of concern regarding the role of and attention given to the work and emphases of African-American criminologists over the years. The book then presents published abstracts listed alphabetically by contributing authors as well as selected references to each publication. An appendix contains titles of doctoral dissertations for all contributing African-American scholars, followed by author and subject indexes. All contributing authors were initially identified from those listed in the "African American Criminology and Criminal Justice Directory" (Heard and Bing, 1995). Scholars found in this directory were cross-referenced to scholars in the membership directories of the American Society of Criminology, the Academy of Criminal Justice Sciences, and the National Organization of Black Law Enforcement Executives. The preface notes that a review of the content of the enclosed publications reveals a cadre of African-American criminologists whose research interests and responses to crime arguably differ from those of mainstream white criminologists. It further comments that a common sentiment echoed in some of the works is that many of the contributions of African-American criminologists have been devalued and neglected by the mainstream of criminology, sociology, and related disciplines.