This essay examines the the academic journey—graduate school to full professor—of an
African American professor of criminology and criminal justice. The essay discusses the how …

This chapter revisits and builds on the argument for developing a Black Criminology.
Blackness matters in criminology, and a call for a Black Criminology is designed to expand …

Written by two of the most prominent criminologists in the field, Race and Crime, Fifth Edition
takes an incisive look at the intersection of race, ethnicity and the criminal justice system …

In a collection of compelling contributions to the study of the nexus between race, crime, and
justice, noted scholars in the field critique many long-held assumptions and myths about …

Race and racism are defining features of criminal justice systems in the United States. Race
is also a defining feature of criminological theory. There have been robust efforts to address …

This address has a twofold purpose. First, as the first African American to serve as president
of the American Society of Criminology (ASC), I celebrate the contributions of scholars of …

xii Preface the value of a Black Criminology (Onwudiwe & Lynch, 2000; Penn, 2003; Russell,
1992). Our purpose is to lay the foundation for the creation of a Black Criminology. The …

This chapter presents the theoretical rationale for the development of a Black Criminology. A
Black Criminology assumes that the United States has been and is a racialized society …

Race is central to understanding the criminal justice system. When we examine policing,
sentencing, imprisonment, and victimization through the prism of race, the constancy of …

Too little consideration has been given to conceptualizing race within mainstream
criminological scholarship. One consequence of this oversight is the existence of a stale …