African American Classics in Criminology and Criminal Justice

Shaun L. Gabbidon is Distinguished Professor of Criminal Justice in the School of Public Affairs at Penn State Harrisburg. He earned his PhD in Criminology at Indiana University of Pennsylvania. Dr. Gabbidon has served as a fellow at Harvard University’s W. E. B. Du Bois Institute for Afro-American Research and as an adjunct faculty member in the Center for Africana Studies at the University of Pennsylvania. His areas of interest include race and crime, criminal justice and criminology pedagogy, and private security.  Professor Gabbidon is the author of more than 100 scholarly publications, including 60 peer-reviewed articles and 11 books. Helen Taylor Greene is Professor of Administration of Justice in the Barbara Jordan–Mickey Leland School of Public Affairs (SPA) at Texas Southern University (TSU). She completed her BS in Sociology at Howard University, her MS in the Administration of Justice at American University, and both her MA in Political Science and PhD in Criminology at the University of Maryland, College Park. Her areas of research include race and crime, juvenile justice, and policing. She has authored and co-authored books, has peer-reviewed articles and book chapters, and has served as lead editor for the Encyclopedia of Race and Crime (2009).  Vernetta D. Young is Associate Professor in the Department of Sociology and Anthropology at Howard University. She completed her B.A. in Sociology at the University of Maryland, College Park, and attended Florida State University before completing her Ph.D. in Criminal Justice at the State University of New York at Albany. She has also taught at American University and the University of Maryland, College Park.

"This collection of writings is crucially important, in part, because it reminds us the theoretical paradigms of these and other African American scholars are excluded when crime, its causes, and its control are discussed by criminologists, criminal justice practitioners, and policy makers. To understand crime fully, the perspectives advanced by these scholars must become an integral part of discussions about who is a criminal and which public policies will best control crime."

• Foreword - Anne Thomas SultonIntroductionPedagogical Reconstruction: Incorporating African American Persepectives Into the Curriculum - Vernetta D. YoungPart I: Historical ClassicsSouthern Horrors: Lynch Law in All Its Phases - Ida B. Wells-BarnettThe Negro Criminal - W.E.B. Du BoisCrime Among the Negros of Chicago: A Social Study - Monroe N. WorkThe Spawn of Slavery: The Convict-Lease System in the South - W.E.B. Du BoisNegro Criminality in the South - Monroe N. WorkRebellious Youth - E. Franklin FrazierCommunity Factors in Negro Delinquency - Earl R. MosesDifferentials in Crime Rates Between Negros and Whites, Based on Comparisons of Four Socio-Economically Equated Areas - Earl R. MosesPart II: Contemporary ClassicsUnequal Justice in the State Criminal Justice System - A. Leon Higginbotham, Jr. White Racism, Black Crime, and American Justice: An Application of the Colonial Model to Explain Crime and Race - Robert StaplesWomen, Race, and Crime - Vernetta D. YoungBeyond Anomalies: Rethinking the Conflict Perspective on Race and Criminal Punishment - Darnell F. HawkinsDevalued Lives and Racial Stereotypes: Ideological Barriers to the Prevention of Family Violence Among Blacks - Darnell F. HawkinsCommunity Policing: A Practical Guide for Police Officials - Lee P. BrownRace, Ethnicity, and the Spatial Dynamic: Toward a Realistic Study of Black Crime, Crime Victimization, and Criminal Justice Processing of Blacks - Daniel E. Georges-AbeyieBlack Males and Social Problems: Prevention Through Afrocentric Socialization - William OliverMinority and Female: A Criminal Justice Double Bind - Coramae Richey MannDevelopment of a Black Criminology and the Role of the Black Criminologist - Katheryn K. RussellThe Code of the Streets - Elijah AndersonThe Colonial Model as a Theoretical Explanation of Crime and Delinquency - Becky TatumRacially Based Jury Nullification: Black Power in the Criminal Justice System - Paul ButlerThe Racial Hoax as Crime: The Law as Afirmation - Kartheryn K. RussellIndexAbout the EditorsAbout the Contributors