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Race, Ethnicity, Crime and Criminal Justice in the United States

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The disciplines of criminology and criminal justice, in their individual and collective inquiries into crime, criminality and their interactions with the criminal justice system, have given notable attention to the subject of race. Broadly speaking, their inquiries encapsulate debates over the possible and/or actual role played by a person’s racial background in offending and in their contact with the criminal justice system. Criminological/criminal justice interests in these seemingly ongoing concerns have expressed themselves in a significant number of scholarly books in titles ranging from interests in a specific area of the criminal justice system to interests in the general criminal justice process. In addition to these books are the numerous chapters, journal articles, conference papers, government publications and related publications that have joined the debate and kept it alive. In sum, there is now so much literature out there that students, professors and others with interest in race, crime and criminal justice will find plenty to choose from: the task lies in managing the plentiful as opposed to searching for scarce scholarly resources.

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Kalunta-Crumpton, A., Ejiogu, K. (2012). Race, Ethnicity, Crime and Criminal Justice in the United States. In: Kalunta-Crumpton, A. (eds) Race, Ethnicity, Crime and Criminal Justice in the Americas. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230355866_3

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