Race and crime : a conservative view / Anthony Walsh.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Walsh, Anthony, 1941- author.

Series:

Law, Crime and Law Enforcement

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Crime and race--United States.

Crime and race.

Conservatism--United States.

Conservatism.

Racism in criminology.

United States--Race relations.

United States.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (274 pages)

Place of Publication:

New York : Nova Science Publishers, Inc., [2022]

Summary:

"In addition to being one of the few books offering a conservative viewpoint on race and crime, this book differs from others about race and crime in a number of ways. Although concepts, data, and explanations are dispersed throughout, it is divided into three broad categories: Conceptual, Statistical Data, and Explanation. The first concept it looks at is the different mindsets and temperaments of liberals and conservatives that have been noted ever since Plato and Aristotle. It has been consistently shown that liberals and conservatives typically differ in their loci of control: external and internal, respectively. Differences in the locus of control lead to quite different interpretations of raw data. It then looks at the concept of race and whether or not it exists. This issue is examined in two chapters; the first in terms of molecular genetics, and the second in terms of evolutionary theory. Then, the concepts of racism and poverty are addressed. Criminological statistical data is analyzed and crime is examined in a cross-cultural context. Explanations for the crime data are proposed"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Ideology, tolerance, and temperament

Race : the concept and its reality

Evolutionary explanations for racial behavioral variation

Racism of a different color : whiteness studies

Poverty : moral and economic

Socioeconomic status and the genetics of individual differences

Race and crime by the numbers

Crime and racial/ethnic groups in the United States and abroad

"Lies, damn lies, and statistics" in criminal justice discourse

Race and spree, mass, and serial killing

Race and hate crimes

Black Lives Matter and police shootings : rhetoric and reality

Ecological factors in the race-crime relationship

The legacy of slavery in black culture

Mating strategies, the family, and evolutionary considerations

The sex ratio, illegitimacy, and race

Race and crime : biosocial considerations.

Notes:

Description based on print version record.

Other Format:

Print version: Walsh, Anthony Race and Crime: a Conservative View

ISBN:

9781685076689