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Handbook on Crime and Inequality

Handbook on Crime and Inequality

Author: Stephen Farrall; Susan McVie
Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing
ISBN: 9781800883598
Published In: January 2025
Format: Hardback
Jurisdiction: U.K. ? Disclaimer:
Countri(es) stated herein are used as reference only

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In this Handbook, Stephen Farrall and Susan McVie bring together a diverse array of leading experts to examine the relationship between different aspects of crime and inequality. They employ a variety of geographical and individual lenses and use case studies from the Global North and South.

Expanding upon current knowledge and introducing new research, the chapters provide dynamic and multidimensional perspectives. They focus on a range of criminological topics, including victimization, offending, attitudes towards punishment, policing processes and the fear of crime. They also interrogate various competing and overlapping measures of inequality. Contributing authors illustrate the conceptual, theoretical and methodological challenges of studying crime and inequality, and underscore the need for engagement by criminologists in this under-researched field.

The Handbook on Crime and Inequality is a vital resource for students and scholars of criminology, inequalities, welfare states, urban sociology and social policy. Policymakers and legal practitioners will also find its insights beneficial for understanding communities and informing governance.

I Introduction

Introduction to the Handbook on Crime and Inequality 2

Stephen Farrall and Susan McVie

II The impact of economic inequalities on crime at varying geospatial or geographical levels 13

The spatial scale of inequality and crime: comparing egohoods across four cities 14

John R. Hipp

Income inequality and property crime: cross-country evidence 35

Thomas Goda and Alejandro Torres García

How population aging is associated with economic inequality and homicide trends 56

Mateus Rennó Santos, Dikla Yogev and Yunmei Lu

Inequality, poverty and homicide: cross-national evidence 78

Paul Norris

Fear of crime and economic equality: the European cross-national perspective 105

Pietari Kujala and Mikko Niemelä

III. Impact of institutional and state-based interventions on inequalities

Is the policing prioritisation of and response to crime equitable? An examination of frontline policing deployment to incidents of violence-against-the-person 126

Jon Bannister, Monsuru Adepeju and Mark Ellison

Bad medicine? Drugs policing, harm reduction and social inequality 148

Will Mason and Lauren Wroe

State crime, state violence and inequalities 172

Susanne Karstedt

IV. Perspectives on crime and inequality from the global south

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Inequality, poverty and the perpetration of violent crime in South Africa 199

Guy Lamb and Giselle Warton

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Changing crime trends and their association with inequality among provinces in mainland China over 35 years 220

Yijing Li and Geping Qiu

12.

Crime and inequality in India 238

Devika Hazra

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Crime, punishment and inequality in Brazil: reflections from the Global South 259

Marcos César Alvarez, Marcelo Campos and Fernando Salla

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The impact of fear of crime, victimization, trust in the police, and inequalities on emigration in Central and South America 284

Amanda Graham

V. The influence of macro- and micro-level change on crime and inequality

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A life course perspective on the relationship between educational mobility, relative deprivation, and criminal offending 312

Christopher R. Dennison and Raymond R. Swisher

16.

Social change and birth cohort differences in recorded crime: is there increasing or decreasing inequality among young offenders from different social backgrounds? 327

Anders Nilsson, Olof Bäckman, Felipe Estrada and Fredrik Sivertsson

17.

The impact of childhood inequalities on serious offending in adolescence: insights from the Edinburgh Study of Youth Transitions and Crime 349

Lesley McAra and Susan McVie

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The role of political ideology in the production of inequitable outcomes and crime 375

Stephen Farrall and Emily Gray

VI. Inequalities in the context of the crime drop

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A crime drop for whom? Conceptualizing and measuring change in victimization inequality 401

Ben Matthews and Susan McVie

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