Black Criminology in the United States

Black Criminology in relation to Crime and Race

Black Criminology is included in the Encyclopedia of Race and Crime (1), beginning with: Katheryn K. Russell-Brown coined the term Black criminology in a seminal 1992 article that appeared in Justice Quarterly. Black criminology entails the development of an integrated theoretical construction and an empirical research analysis that focus on race as an essential variable in the study of crime committed by Blacks. While Black criminology remains a subfield of mainstream criminology, it addresses and explains the race-crime relationship as it relates to the involvement of Blacks in the criminal justice system. This approach goes beyond the spotlight on the impact of the criminal justice system on Blacks by emphasizing the expansion of criminological perspectives that elucidate Black criminality and the formulation of new assumptions to explicate the race-crime connection.

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Notes and References

1. Entry about Black Criminology in the Encyclopedia of Race and Crime

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