Poverty, Ethnicity, And Violent Crime

by James F. Short Jr.

Book Overview

This book brings together statistical trends and decades of ethnographic research on violent crime and gangs, focusing on the role of poverty and ethnic status in violent crime. It can serve as a text or as supplementary reading for a variety of criminology courses.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0813320143
• ISBN13: 9780813320144
• Release Date: March 1997
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 256 Pages
• Weight: 0.80 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.9" x 8.9"