Race, Crime and Resistance

Dr Tina G. Patel is an Associate Professor (Reader) in Criminology in the School of Health and Society, University of Salford, UK. Tina’s research examines social inequality, marginalisation and their implications for crime, justice and victimisation. Tina is committed to producing accessible scholarship that strengthens knowledge and practice.

A critical and inter-disciplinary perspective that helps to shed new light upon the intersections between resistance, "race", crime and politicsDr. Basia SpalekReader in Communities & Justice, School of Social Policy, University of Birmingham A thoughtful and lively examination of key concepts and developments in the race and crime debate. The authors rethink some fundamental questions about institutional racism and show how scientific racism continues to be a pervasive influence in the criminal justice sphereHindpal Singh BhuiInspection Team Leader, HM Inspectorate of Prisons Patel and Tyrer write from a critical criminological perspective, with a usefully broad conception of crime, incorporating state crime, hate crime and criminalization... It is structured and presented as a text book (with revision questions and further readings), yet has arguments that will certainly challenge established scholars in the various fields that it traverses. It accessibly introduces terms, concepts and debates, yet adopts some of the expressive style as well as conceptual complexities of writing from the ′posts′ and the ′isms′ that it deploys; it is no easy read. It is well worth the read, however, and has plenty for readers of all levels and most persuasions.Professor Scott PoyntingYouth Justice

• Introduction: Constructing the Race-Crime Problem Racialised others and the roots of a racist rationale The problem with racialised constructions of crime Racial profiling in a post-Macpherson era Discourse, method, race, crime and resistance Book structure and content Crime Science? The presentation of black criminality Science, genetics and racial profiling Questioning ′race talk′ The Politics of Hate Contextualising the politics of hate I hate you so much right now: affect and hate From the centre to the margins … and back again Policing Racism or Policing Race? Strained relations and Macpherson Black people within police environments: custody and career Learning lessons from Macpherson? Courtin′ Justice Racial bias and the tipping of Portia′s scales Fair courtroom personnel, fair courtroom justice? Beyond the docks Proportionate Punishment? Situating disciplinary racism Reproducing racial boundaries Control racism and punishment Sovereignty and asylum detention Victims′ Rights and the Challenge of Discrimination Resistance and collective mobilisation Rethinking political identities Unsettling traditional modes of politics Forms of Resistance Contextualising race and resistance Discourse, racism, essentialism and anti-essentialism Muslim resistance: from Rushdie to the Danish cartoon protests Researching the Agenda Generating knowledge on race and crime Barriers in researching race matters Presenting accurate and meaningful data Conclusion: Re-Constructing Race and Crime Reconsidering ′scientific′ racism The question of races Biopolitics Racialised governmentality and the legacy of institutional racism Resistance