African American Criminologists, 1970-1996: An Annotated Bibliography (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9780313301506)

To this date, efforts to document the scholarly contributions of exclusively African American criminologists are nonexistent. This is a reference work which offers contemporary Afrocentric perspective on critical issues of crime and justice by focusing on the contributions of African American criminologists whose interests and responses to crime arguably differ from those of mainstream white criminologists. This reference will be of interest to undergraduate and graduate students and faculty in criminal justice and practitioners in policy making.

Most of the abstracts can be cross-referenced to publications within mainstream criminal justice journals. In addition, selected books, manuscripts, and an array of state and government documents are included and provide rare Afrocentric perspectives on issues of crime and justice. In the process, it credits many Caucasians and ethnic minorities as important contributors to a given publication. This reference book consists of five chapters: (1) an introductory article on issues that define (and confront) African American criminologists, (2) an alphabetical listing of published abstracts for each contributing author, (3) selected references to each publication, (4) an appendix containing titles to doctoral dissertations for all contributing African American scholars, and (5) an author and subject index.

Author: Lee Ross
ISBN-10: 0313301506
ISBN-13: 9780313301506
Publisher: Greenwood
Language: English
Published: 04/16/1998
Pages: 144
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 0.74lbs
Size: 9.50h x 6.36w x 0.58d

Review Citation(s):
American Reference Bks Annual 01/01/1999 pg. 234