Race and Crime

In the third edition of Race and Crime, award winning authors Shaun Gabbidona and Helen Taylor Greene continue to examine the history of how racial and ethnic groups intersect with the U.S. criminal justice system, and investigates key contemporary issues relevant to understanding the current state of race/ethnicity and crime in the United States. This thought-provoking text provides students the latest research and data on White, Black, Hispanic, Asian-American and Native American intersections with the criminal justice system. The unique historical perspective is integrated throughout the text and provides students with a panoramic perspective on race and crime.

Shaun L. Gabbidon is Distinguished Professor of Criminal Justice in the School of Public Affairs at Penn State Harrisburg. He earned his Ph D in Criminology at Indiana University of Pennsylvania. Dr. Gabbidon has served as a fellow at Harvard University’s W. E. B. Du Bois Institute for Afro-American Research and as an adjunct faculty member in the Center for Africana Studies at the University of Pennsylvania. His areas of interest include race and crime, private security, and criminology and criminal justice pedagogy. Professor Gabbidon is the author of more than 100 scholarly publications, including 12 books and more than 50 peer-reviewed articles. His most recent books include Race, Ethnicity, Crime and Justice: An International Dilemma (2009), Criminological Perspectives on Race and Crime (2nd edition) (2010), and A Theory of African American Offending (with James Unnever) (2011). He cur­rently serves as the inaugural editor of the new Sage journal Race and Justice: An Interna­tional Journal.

Helen Taylor Greene is Professor of Administration of Justice in the Barbara Jordan–Mickey Leland School of Public Affairs (SPA) at Texas Southern University (TSU) and currently serves as Interim Associate Dean in the SPA. Earlier, she served as chair and graduate program director of the Department of Administration of Justice at TSU. She completed her BS in Sociology at Howard University, her MS in the Administration of Justice at American University, and both her MA in Political Science and Ph D in Criminol­ogy at the University of Maryland, College Park. Areas of interest include race and crime, juvenile justice, and policing. She has authored, co-authored, and edited peer-reviewed articles and books and, most recently, served as lead editor for the Encyclopedia of Race and Crime (2009). In 2010, she received the Lifetime Achievement Award from the American Society of Criminology’s Division on People of Color and Crime.