African American Classics in Criminology and Criminal Justice

From W.E.B. Dubois through Lee Brown, this anthology provides a collection of the key articles in criminology and criminal justice written by black scholars. Available in a single volume for the first time, the articles collected in this book reflect the voices of African-American scholars and display the diversity of perspectives sought after in today’s academic community. Crime in the African-American community is examined from social, economic and political perspectives, and the historical context of each article is provided by the editors. Spanning the 20th century, these works present a historical chronology of African-American views on crime and its control with theoretical perspectives that have often been tangential to mainstream scholarship.

This anthology presents writings on criminology and criminal justice by black scholars. Among the 23 contributions are W.E.B. DuBois's "The Negro Criminal," Vernetta D. Young's "Women, Race, and Crime," Lee P. Brown's "Community Policing: a Practical Guide for Police Officials," and Elijah Anderson's "The Code of the Streets." The volume also includes a reprint of Young and Greene's 1995 article "Incorporating African American Perspectives into the Curriculum."

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Shaun L. Gabbidon is assistant professor of criminal justice in the School of Public Affairs at Pennsylvania State University, Capital College. He received his bachelor's degree in Government Administration with a specialty in criminal justice from Christopher Newport University in Newport News, Virginia. After receiving a M.S. in criminal justice from the University of Baltimore, he received a Ph.D. in criminology from Indiana University of Pennsylvania. Professor Gabbidon is co-author (with Helen Taylor Greene) of African American Criminological Thought (2000) and co-editor with Gabiddon and Vernetta Young of African-American Classics in Criminology and Criminal Justice (Sage, 2001).

Helen Greene is an associate professor in the Department of Sociology and Criminal Justice at Old Dominion University. She completed her B.S. degree in sociology at Howard University, an M.S. in the Administration of Justice at The American University, an M.A. in political science and Ph.D. in criminology at the University of Maryland, College Park. She is co-author with Shaun Gabbidon of African Criminological Thought (2000) and co-editor with Gabiddon and Vernetta Young of African-American Classics in Criminology and Criminal Justice (Sage, 2001).

Vernetta D. Young is Associate Professor in the Department of Sociology and Anthropology at Howard University. She completed her B.A. in Sociology at the University of Maryland, College Park, and attended Florida State University before completing her Ph.D. in Criminal Justice at the State University of New York at Albany. She has also taught at American University and the University of Maryland, CollegePark.