Handbook on crime and inequality / edited by Stephen Farrall (Professor, School of Sociology and Social Policy, University of Nottingham) and Susan McVie (Professor of Quantitative Criminology, School of Law, University of Edinburgh, UK).

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Farrall, Stephen, editor.

McVie, Susan, editor.

Edward Elgar Publishing, publisher.

Series:

Elgar handbooks on inequality

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Criminology.

Equality.

Genre:

Electronic books.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (512 pages)

Place of Publication:

Northampton : Edward Elgar, 2025.

Summary:

"In this Handbook, Stephen Farrall and Susan McVie bring together a diverse array of leading experts to examine the relationship between different aspects of crime and inequality. They employ a variety of geographical and individual lenses and use case studies from the Global North and South. Expanding upon current knowledge and introducing new research, the chapters provide dynamic and multidimensional perspectives. They focus on a range of criminological topics, including victimization, offending, attitudes towards punishment, policing processes and the fear of crime. They also interrogate various competing and overlapping measures of inequality. Contributing authors illustrate the conceptual, theoretical and methodological challenges of studying crime and inequality, and underscore the need for engagement by criminologists in this under-researched field. The Handbook on Crime and Inequality is a vital resource for students and scholars of criminology, inequalities, welfare states, urban sociology and social policy. Policymakers and legal practitioners will also find its insights beneficial for understanding communities and informing governance"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Contents: I Introduction

1. Introduction to the handbook on crime and inequality / Stephen Farrall and Susan McVie

Ii the impact of economic inequalities on crime at varying geospatial or geographical levels

2. The spatial scale of inequality and crime: Comparing egohoods across four cities / John R. Hipp

3. Income inequality and property crime: Cross-country evidence / Thomas Goda and Alejandro Torres García

4. How population aging is associated with economic inequality and homicide trends / Mateus Rennó Santos, Dikla Yogev and Yunmei Lu

5. Inequality, poverty and homicide: cross-national evidence / Paul Norris

6. Fear of crime and economic equality: The European cross-national perspective / Pietari Kujala and Mikko Niemelä

Iii. Impact of institutional and state-based interventions on inequalities

7. Is the policing prioritisation of and response to crime equitable? An examination of frontline policing deployment to incidents of violence-against-the-person / Jon Bannister, Monsuru Adepeju and Mark Ellison

8. Bad medicine? Drugs policing, harm reduction and social inequality / Will Mason and Lauren Wroe

9. State crime, state violence and inequalities / Susanne Karstedt

Iv. Perspectives on crime and inequality from the global south

10. Inequality, poverty and the perpetration of violent crime in South Africa / Guy Lamb and Giselle Warton

11. Changing crime trends and their association with inequality among provinces in mainland China over 35. Years / Yijing Li and Geping Qiu

12. Crime and inequality in India / Devika Hazra

13. Crime, punishment and inequality in brazil: Reflections from the global south / Marcos César Alvarez, Marcelo Campos and Fernando Salla

14. The impact of fear of crime, victimization, trust in the police, and inequalities on emigration in central and South America / Amanda Graham

V. The influence of macro- and micro-level change on crime and inequality

15. A life course perspective on the relationship between educational mobility, relative deprivation, and criminal offending / Christopher R. Dennison and Raymond R. Swisher

16. Social change and birth cohort differences in recorded crime: Is there increasing or decreasing inequality among young offenders from different social backgrounds? / Anders Nilsson, Olof Bäckman, Felipe Estrada and Fredrik Sivertsson

17. The impact of childhood inequalities on serious offending in adolescence: Insights from the edinburgh study of youth transitions and crime / Lesley McAra and Susan McVie

18. The role of political ideology in the production of inequitable outcomes and crime / Stephen Farrall and Emily Gray

Vi. Inequalities in the context of the crime drop

19. A crime drop for whom? Conceptualizing and measuring change in victimization inequality / Ben Matthews and Susan McVie

20. Race, structural inequalities, and the crime drop / Karen F. Parker and Andrew C. Gray

21. Crime inequalities and distributive justice during the crime drop: Evidence from England and Wales in relation to crime incidents, offenders, and defendants / James Hunter and Andromachi Tseloni

Vii. Closing Chapter

22. Inequalities and crime: The centrality of complex or intersecting inequalities / Karen Heimer.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print record.

ISBN:

9781800883604 (e-book)

Access Restriction:

Restricted for use by site license.