Handbook on Crime and Inequality

 

ISBN13: 9781800883598
To be Published: January 2025
Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing Limited
Country of Publication: UK
Format: Hardback
Price: £225.00

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.

Contents:I Introduction1. Introduction to the Handbook on Crime and Inequality 2Stephen Farrall and Susan McVie
II The impact of economic inequalities on crime at varying geospatial or geographical levels 132. The spatial scale of inequality and crime: comparing egohoods across four cities 14John R. Hipp3. Income inequality and property crime: cross-country evidence 35Thomas Goda and Alejandro Torres García4. How population aging is associated with economic inequality and homicide trends 56Mateus Rennó Santos, Dikla Yogev and Yunmei Lu5. Inequality, poverty and homicide: cross-national evidence 78Paul Norris6. Fear of crime and economic equality: the European cross-national perspective 105Pietari Kujala and Mikko Niemelä
III. Impact of institutional and state-based interventions on inequalities7. Is the policing prioritisation of and response to crime equitable? An examination of frontline policing deployment to incidents of violence-against-the-person 126Jon Bannister, Monsuru Adepeju and Mark Ellison8. Bad medicine? Drugs policing, harm reduction and social inequality 148Will Mason and Lauren Wroe9. State crime, state violence and inequalities 172Susanne Karstedt
IV. Perspectives on crime and inequality from the global south10. Inequality, poverty and the perpetration of violent crime in South Africa 199Guy Lamb and Giselle Warton11. Changing crime trends and their association with inequality among provinces in mainland China over 35 years 220Yijing Li and Geping Qiu12. Crime and inequality in India 238Devika Hazra13. Crime, punishment and inequality in Brazil: reflections from the Global South 259Marcos César Alvarez, Marcelo Campos and Fernando Salla14. The impact of fear of crime, victimization, trust in the police, and inequalities on emigration in Central and South America 284Amanda Graham
V. The influence of macro- and micro-level change on crime and inequality15. A life course perspective on the relationship between educational mobility, relative deprivation, and criminal offending 312Christopher R. Dennison and Raymond R. Swisher16. Social change and birth cohort differences in recorded crime: is there increasing or decreasing inequality among young offenders from different social backgrounds? 327Anders Nilsson, Olof Bäckman, Felipe Estrada and Fredrik Sivertsson17. The impact of childhood inequalities on serious offending in adolescence: insights from the Edinburgh Study of Youth Transitions and Crime 349Lesley McAra and Susan McVie18. The role of political ideology in the production of inequitable outcomes and crime 375Stephen Farrall and Emily Gray
VI. Inequalities in the context of the crime drop19. A crime drop for whom? Conceptualizing and measuring change in victimization inequality 401Ben Matthews and Susan McVie20. Race, structural inequalities, and the crime drop 425Karen F. Parker and Andrew C. Gray21. Crime inequalities and distributive justice during the crime drop:evidence from England and Wales in relation to crime incidents, offenders, and defendants 446James Hunter and Andromachi Tseloni
VII. Closing chapter22. Inequalities and crime: the centrality of complex or intersecting inequalities 467Karen Heimer