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Handbook on Crime and Inequality

Handbook on Crime and Inequality

Name: Handbook on Crime and Inequality
Brand: Edward Elgar Publishing
SKU: 9781800883598
Price: 2837.25 HKD
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Author: Stephen Farrall; Susan McVie
ISBN: 9781800883598

Edited by Stephen Farrall · Susan McVie

Edward Elgar Publishing January 2025

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ISBN-13: 9781800883598
Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing
Publication: January 2025
Format: Hardback
Jurisdiction: U.K. ? Countri(es) for 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; 1.
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; 2.
The spatial scale of inequality and crime: comparing egohoods across four cities 14: John R. Hipp; 3.
Income inequality and property crime: cross-country evidence 35: Thomas Goda and Alejandro Torres García; 4.
How population aging is associated with economic inequality and homicide trends 56: Mateus Rennó Santos, Dikla Yogev and Yunmei Lu; 5.
Inequality, poverty and homicide: cross-national evidence 78: Paul Norris; 6.
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; 7.
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; 8.
Bad medicine? Drugs policing, harm reduction and social inequality 148: Will Mason and Lauren Wroe; 9.
State crime, state violence and inequalities 172: Susanne Karstedt; IV. Perspectives on crime and inequality from the global south; 10.
Inequality, poverty and the perpetration of violent crime in South Africa 199: Guy Lamb and Giselle Warton; 11.
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; 13.
Crime, punishment and inequality in Brazil: reflections from the Global South 259: Marcos César Alvarez, Marcelo Campos and Fernando Salla; 14.
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; 15.
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; 18.
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; 19.
A crime drop for whom? Conceptualizing and measuring change in victimization inequality 401: Ben Matthews and Susan McVie; 20.
Race, structural inequalities, and the crime drop 425: Karen F. Parker and Andrew C. Gray; 21.
Crime inequalities and distributive justice during the crime drop:: evidence from England and Wales in relation to crime incidents, offenders, and defendants 446; James Hunter and Andromachi Tseloni; VII. Closing chapter; 22.
Inequalities and crime: the centrality of complex or intersecting inequalities 467: Karen Heimer