Contents:

Part I: do the courts discriminate?. Part II: crime, policing and racial unrest. Part III: black crime: personality, culture, or criminalization?. Part IV: race and gender.

The papers collected in this volume represent significant findings, theoretical perspectives and controversies which have been published in North American and British journals during the 1980s and 1990s on the important and politically contentious topics of race, crime and criminal justice.