Building a Black Criminology, Volume 24
Building a Black Criminology, Volume 24 In light of the Black Lives Matter movement and protests in many cities, race plays an ever more salient role in crime and justice. It is often introduced as a…
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Building a Black Criminology, Volume 24
In light of the Black Lives Matter movement and protests in many cities, race plays an ever more salient role in crime and justice. It is often introduced as a control variable in tests of theories and is rarely incorporated as a central construct in mainstream paradigms (e.g., control, social learning, and strain theories). Within theoretical criminology, however, race has oddly remained on the periphery.
An alternative perspective has emerged that seeks to identify the unique, racially specific conditions that only Blacks experience. When race is discussed, the standard approach is to embrace the racial invariance thesis, which argues that any racial differences in crime are due to African Americans being exposed to the same criminogenic risk factors as are Whites, just more of them. Within the United States, these conditions are rooted in the historical racial oppression