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 …

Objective The objective of this study was to discern the relationship between state-level
structural racism and Black-White disparities in police shootings of victims not known to be …

This article presents data from the completed first wave of a multiwave comparative study of
crime, danger, and informal social control that focuses on youth living in three high‐crime …

Background Gun violence has shortened the average life expectancy of Americans, and
better knowledge about the root causes of gun violence is crucial to its prevention. While …

Drawing on structural racism and urban disadvantage approaches, this article posits a broad
influence of citywide racial residential segregation on levels of violent crime across all urban …

Criminology: Explaining Crime and Its Context, Ninth Edition, is a highly acclaimed textbook
offering a broad perspective on criminological theory. It provides students of criminology and …

Despite popular commentary claiming a link between immigration and crime, empirical
research exploring this relationship is sparse. Especially missing from the literature on …

Emerging research associated with the “immigration revitalization” perspective suggests that
immigration has been labeled inaccurately as a cause of crime in contemporary society. In …

A good deal of research in recent years has revisited the relationship between immigration
and violent crime. Various scholars have suggested that, contrary to the claims of the classic …

This book provides a sociological perspective on crime and criminal justice by treating social
structure and social inequality as central themes in the study of crime—and major factors in …