In 1995, Sampson & Wilson assessed the state of knowledge on race and violence and set
forth an approach for future research. We review macrostructural analyses of race, ethnicity …

The book investigates patterns of criminal behavior and victimization and covers the
experiences of African Americans, Hispanic Americans, Asian Americans, and Native …

Like past editions, this ninth edition of Social Inequality: Forms, Causes, and Consequences
is a user-friendly introduction to the study of social inequality. This book conveys the …

This research presents an application of Sampson and Laub's theory of age-graded informal
social control in a national environment in which the structural and cultural contexts of work …

Crime and legal work are not mutually exclusive choices but represent a continuum of legal
and illegal income-generating activities. The links between crime and legal work involve …

Violent crime in America is more strongly associated with poverty and with changing social
and economic conditions than with race or ethnicity, and patterns of violence are changing …

Although much literature has examined macrolevel employment contexts and crime rates
and, at the individual level, employment and offending, few studies have examined …

The activities of European-American and African-American youth gangs have been closely
linked to the operation of changing racial and class structures. In this article, I compare …

This chapter focuses on life-course studies of employment and crime. It draws predominantly
on quantitative results, but evidence from qualitative life-course studies are discussed as …

Crime inequality in neighborhoods by race is blamed on social inequalities borne out of
segregation and economic discrimination. South Africa is a country synonymous with racial …