Handbook on Crime and Inequality

Edited by Stephen Farrall, Professor, School of Sociology and Social Policy, University of Nottingham and Susan McVie, Professor of Quantitative Criminology, School of Law, University of Edinburgh, UK

‘In this timely volume, fine scholars demonstrate the enduring relevance of inequalities to understanding crime, and doing something about it. The diverse and deft contributions demonstrate how viewing crime through different inequality lenses is a methodological imperative. The better we get at implementing that imperative, the better we get at understanding what can be done to transform unequal and crime-ridden societies into something better. This thoughtful book helps prise open many doorways to that future.’

• ContentsI Introduction 11 Introduction to the Handbook on Crime and Inequality 2Stephen Farrall and Susan McVieII The impact of economic inequalities on crime at varying geospatial orgeographical levels 132 The spatial scale of inequality and crime: comparing egohoods acrossfour cities 14John R. Hipp3 Income inequality and property crime: cross-country evidence 35Thomas Goda and Alejandro Torres García4 How population aging is associated with economic inequality andhomicide trends 56Mateus Rennó Santos, Dikla Yogev and Yunmei Lu5 Inequality, poverty and homicide: cross-national evidence 78Paul Norris6 Fear of crime and economic equality: the European cross-national perspective 105Pietari Kujala and Mikko NiemeläIII. Impact of institutional and state-based interventions on inequalities 1257 Is the policing prioritisation of and response to crime equitable?An examination of frontline policing deployment to incidents ofviolence-against-the-person 126Jon Bannister, Monsuru Adepeju and Mark Ellison8 Bad medicine? Drugs policing, harm reduction and social inequality 148Will Mason and Lauren Wroe9 State crime, state violence and inequalities 172Susanne KarstedtIV. Perspectives on crime and inequality from the global south 19810 Inequality, poverty and the perpetration of violent crime in South Africa 199Guy Lamb and Giselle Warton11 Changing crime trends and their association with inequality amongprovinces in mainland China over 35 years 220Yijing Li and Geping Qiu12 Crime and inequality in India 238Devika Hazra13 Crime, punishment and inequality in Brazil: reflections from the Global South 259Marcos César Alvarez, Marcelo Campos and Fernando Salla14 The impact of fear of crime, victimization, trust in the police, andinequalities on emigration in Central and South America 284Amanda GrahamV. The influence of macro- and micro-level change on crime and inequality 31115 A life course perspective on the relationship between educationalmobility, relative deprivation, and criminal offending 312Christopher R. Dennison and Raymond R. Swisher16 Social change and birth cohort differences in recorded crime: is thereincreasing or decreasing inequality among young offenders fromdifferent social backgrounds? 327Anders Nilsson, Olof Bäckman, Felipe Estrada and Fredrik Sivertsson17 The impact of childhood inequalities on serious offending inadolescence: insights from the Edinburgh Study of Youth Transitionsand Crime 349Lesley McAra and Susan McVie18 The role of political ideology in the production of inequitable outcomesand crime 375Stephen Farrall and Emily GrayVI. Inequalities in the context of the crime drop 40019 A crime drop for whom? Conceptualizing and measuring change invictimization inequality 401Ben Matthews and Susan McVie20 Race, structural inequalities, and the crime drop 425Karen F. Parker and Andrew C. Gray21 Crime inequalities and distributive justice during the crime drop:evidence from England and Wales in relation to crime incidents,offenders, and defendants 446James Hunter and Andromachi TseloniVII. Closing chapter 46622 Inequalities and crime: the centrality of complex or intersecting inequalities 467Karen Heimer