New Directions in Race, Ethnicity and Crime

The disproportionate criminalisation and incarceration of particular minority ethnic groups has long been observed, though much of the work in criminology has been dominated by a somewhat narrow debate. This debate has concerned itself with explaining this disproportionality in terms of structural inequalities and socio-economic disadvantage or discriminatory criminal justice processing.

This book offers an accessible and innovative approach, including chapters on anti-Semitism, social cohesion in London, Bradford and Glasgow, as well as an exploration of policing Traveller communities. Incorporating current empirical research and new departures in methodology and theory, this book also draws on a range of contemporary issues such as policing terrorism, immigration detention and youth gangs. In offering minority perspectives on race, crime and justice and white inmate perspectives from the multicultural prison, the book emphasises contrasting and distinctive influences on constructing ethnic identities.

It will be of interest to students studying courses in ethnicity, crime and justice.

1. Introduction 2. 'Anti-Semitism' and anti-Jewish hatred: conceptual, political and legal challenges 3. Negotiating identities: ethnicity, religion and social cohesion in London and Bradford 4. We belong to Glasgow: the thirdspace of youth 'gangs' and asylum seeker, refugee and migrant groups 5. Citizenship and belonging in a women's immigration detention centre 6. Black perspectives on race, crime and justice 7. Configuring ethnic identities: resistance as a response to counter-terrorist policy 8. Offenders or victims? An exploration of Gypsies and Travellers as a policing paradox 9. Inside white - racism, social relations and ethnicity in English prison 10. New directions and new generations - old and new racism?

Coretta Phillips is Senior Lecturer in Social Policy at the London School of Economics and Political Science.

Colin Webster is Reader in Criminology at Leeds Metropolitan University and Visiting Research Fellow at Teesside University.