Author Short details the implications surrounding the causes of crime for national policy. His work concludes that violent crime in America is more strongly associated with poverty than with race or ethnicity and patterns of violence are changing. Short's comprehensive survey brings together statistical trends and decades of ethnographic research on violent crime and gangs. This book can serve as a text or as supplementary reading for a variety of criminology courses. Part of the series, Crime & Society.
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Author Short details the implications surrounding the causes of crime for national policy. His work concludes that violent crime in America is more strongly associated with poverty than with race or ethnicity and patterns of violence are changing. Short's comprehensive survey brings together statistical trends and decades of ethnographic research on violent crime and gangs. This book can serve as a text or as supplementary reading for a variety of criminology courses. Part of the series, Crime & Society.
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Add this copy of Poverty, Ethnicity, and Violent Crime (Crime and to cart. $161.31, good condition, Sold by Bonita rated 4.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Newport Coast, CA, UNITED STATES, published 1997 by Westview Press.
