Akwasi Owusu-Bempah - Race, Ethnicity, Crime, and Justice: An International Dilemma

Race, Ethnicity, Crime, and Justice

Race, Ethnicity, Crime, and Justice: An International Dilemma , Second Edition, takes a unique comparative approach to the exploration of race- and ethnicity-related justice issues in five countries around the world.

Using the colonial model as a theoretical lens, Owusu-Bempah and Gabbidon analyse data from Great Britain, the United States, Canada, Australia, and South Africa. These international case studies help students contextualize race and justice issues within and across nations. Concise historical framing illuminates todays racial dynamics in these diverse justice systems, and accessible theory grounds the comparison of crime and justice data from the early 21st century with current statistics. A new concluding chapter revisits the question of where these nations fit in the global context of state and non-state actors and of ethnic and racial justice issues.

This new edition is suitable for use as a core or supplemental text for advanced undergraduates and early graduate courses on race and crime, minorities and criminal justice, diversity in criminal justice, and comparative justice systems. It is also appropriate for use in sociology and ethnic studies courses that focus on race and crime.

Akwasi Owusu-Bempah is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Sociology at the University of Toronto and Senior Fellow at Massey College. He is a graduate of the PhD program in Criminology and Sociolegal Studies at the University of Toronto. Dr. Owusu-Bempah began his academic career in the United States at Indiana University Bloomington where he was a faculty member in the Department of Criminal Justice and cross-appointed to the Department of African American and African Diaspora Studies. His research examines the intersections of race, crime, and criminal justice, with a particular focus in the area of policing. He is currently studying various aspects of drug legalization and the equity issues that stem from these policy shifts. Prior to becoming a professor, Dr. Owusu-Bempah held positions with Canadas National Judicial Institute, the Public Health Agency of Canada, and the Ontario Ministry of Community Safety and Correctional Services. He is frequently sought out to provide commentary and advice to police agencies, government bodies, community organizations, and media outlets on matters relating to policing, justice, and social inequality.

Shaun L. Gabbidon is Distinguished Professor of Criminal Justice at Penn State Harrisburg. He is a graduate of the PhD Program in Criminology at Indiana University of Pennsylvania. He has served as a fellow at Harvard Universitys W. E. B. Du Bois Institute for Afro-American Research and has taught at the Center for Africana Studies at the University of Pennsylvania. Dr. Gabbidon was recently named a Fellow of the Academy of Criminal Justice Sciences. The author of more than 100 scholarly publications including 13 books and more than 70 peer-reviewed articles, his most recent books include Race and Crime (5th ed.) (with Helen Taylor Greene, 2019; SAGE); Building a Black Criminology: Race, Theory, and Crime (co-edited with James D. Unnever and Cecilia Chouhy, 2019; Routledge); Criminological Perspectives on Race and Crime (4th ed.) (2020; Routledge); and Shopping While Black: Consumer Racial Profiling in America (with George E. Higgins, 2020; Routledge). He currently serves as the editor of the Journal of Criminal Justice Education . In recent years, he has served as an expert witness in consumer racial profiling cases and as an anti-racial profiling consultant. Dr. Gabbidon can be reached at slg13@psu.edu.

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Race, Ethnicity, Crime, and Justice

An International Dilemma

Second Edition

Akwasi Owusu-Bempah and Shaun L. Gabbidon

Second edition published 2021
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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Names: Owusu-Bempah, Akwasi, author. | Gabbidon, Shaun L., 1967- author.
Title: Race, ethnicity, crime, and justice: an international dilemma/Akwasi Owusu-Bempah & Shaun L. Gabbidon.
Description: 2nd edition. | New York, NY: Routledge, 2021. | Includes bibliographical references and index.
Identifiers: LCCN 2020019547 (print) | LCCN 2020019548 (ebook) | ISBN 9781138921344 (hardback) | ISBN 9781138921351 (paperback) | ISBN 9781315686400 (ebook)
Subjects: LCSH: Crime and race. | Criminal justice, Administration of. | Discrimination in criminal justice administration.
Classification: LCC HV6191 .G35 2020 (print) | LCC HV6191 (ebook) | DDC 364.2/56dc22
LC record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2020019547
LC ebook record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2020019548

ISBN: 978-1-138-92134-4 (hbk)
ISBN: 978-1-138-92135-1 (pbk)
ISBN: 978-1-315-68640-0 (ebk)

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