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Research Handbook on Race, Crime and Justice

Edited by: Kelly Welch

ISBN13: 9781035334193
To be Published: December 2026
Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing Limited
Country of Publication: UK
Format: Hardback
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This multidisciplinary Research Handbook investigates the inequalities and divisions rooted in race and ethnicity, many of which transcend borders and traditional conceptions of justice. Chapters present a broad and inclusive perspective on justice, harm, and minority status within criminal institutions and broader society.

Leading and emerging experts utilize a range of methodologies to assess how crimes have been defined and punished across the world and throughout history. They examine the disproportionate criminalization, policing, conviction, and punishment of racialized minorities, alongside their victimization and exclusion from social, economic, and civil life. With a focus on how theory, policy, and activism intersect, the Handbook provides prescient insights into future academic research and legal and policy reformations.

The Research Handbook on Race, Crime and Justice benefits students and scholars of criminology, psychology, sociology, law, and political science. It is also an essential read for policymakers and practitioners of criminal law and justice, as well as those focused on diversity, equity, and inclusion.

Subjects:
Criminology
Contents:
1. Introduction: key challenges and opportunities for studying race, crime,
and justice around the globe 1
Kelly Welch

PART I CONCEPTUAL AND THEORETICAL FRAMEWORKS
2. The social history of a gene: MAOA and the racialization of violence 11
Julien Larregue and Oliver Rollins
3. The intersection of race, culture, and strain: insights from the Asian
American community 28
Hyeseon Noh
4. The social resistance framework: synthesis of recent findings and avenues
for future investigation 46
Or Tal Shyla Baron and Roni Factor
5. Applicability of racial and ethnic threat theory in global contexts 62
Peter S. Lehmann and Jae Eun Lee

PART II METHODOLOGICAL INNOVATIONS AND ANALYSES
6. Intimate partner violence survivorship: understanding racial dimensions, intersectional oppression, and systemic barriers to better research and recognize women’s experiences in Canada 77
Arshia U. Zaidi
7. A reflection of researcher positionality in race research: qualitative fieldwork with judges in Australian supreme and district courts 94
Marisela Velazquez
8. Intersectional disparities in sentencing: an application of MAIHDA to the US Federal Courts 109
Jose Pina-Sánchez and Ferhat Tura
9. The social control of “bad hombres” and “degenerates”: the intersection of criminalization and racialization of Mexicans in the United States 128
Daniel E. Martínez, Amanda Pierson and Ricardo D. Martínez-Schuldt

PART III EFFECTS OF RACE ON CRIME AND VICTIMIZATION
10. Research and policy to address race-based hate crimes and violent extremism in Germany 151
Marc Coester
11. COVID-19-related hate crime victimizations against Asian Americans and the racial concerns about future pandemics 171
Sungil Han and Jordan R. Riddell
12. Hate crime: experiences of South Asian corner-shop owners in Northamptonshire, United Kingdom 187
Tolulope Eboka
13. Latina/o/x/e victimization and vulnerability within schools 200
Kay S. Varela, Jennifer M. Bondy, Janice Iwama, Sanna King,
Anthony A. Peguero, Jun Sung Hong, Sarah Lindstrom Johnson and Angelica Lopez
14. Latina/o immigration and crime in the United States: characterizing Latinas/os in the research 214
Chris Guerra
15. Hypervisible—yet (auto-)invisibilized: the marginalization of Black migrants and refugees in Latin America 229
Luisa Feline Freier, Caitlyn Yates and Leon Lucar Oba

PART IV EFFECTS OF RACE ON THE ADMINISTRATION OF JUSTICE
16. Racial and ethnic dynamics in the context of protest policing 245
Adam Dunbar
17. The hidden traumas of no-knock police raids on racialized individuals and communities in Canada 256
Ardavan Eizadirad, Tina-Nadia Chambers and Joyce Chua
18. Racialized police violence in the United States of America 275
Robert J. Durán
19. Dressed for conflict or safety? Police officers’ perception of their attire during racial justice protests 288
Joshua R. Ruffin
20. School safety for whom? School discipline and policing racialized youth in schools 303
Alice Romo and Julius G. Haag
21. Understanding the relationship between race and ethnicity, probation officers’ recommendations, and juvenile court outcomes 319
Courtney M. Echols and Nancy Rodriguez
22. Prosecutor narratives and race construction in rap on trial cases 335
Kyle Winnen, Charis E. Kubrin and Jack I. Lerner
23. The contextual effects of sex on ethnic disparities in the justice system: ethnicity and community orders for men and women 351
Angela Sorsby

PART V NON-CRIMINAL JUSTICE INSTITUTIONAL EFFECTS OF RACE
24. School policing, racial inequality, and legal socialization of youth 378
Aaron Kupchik, F. Chris Curran, Deanna Devlin and Salvatore D’Angelo
25. The role of race in conceptualising South African apartheid as a crime 392
Gerhard Kemp
26. Criminal legal contact and ethnoracial health disparities 408
Ryan D. Talbert, Nicole Love and Justin Guinta
27. Policing within hospitals: emerging trends and reinforcement of racial inequality 424
Jim Highberger and Emalie Rell
28. Gentrification and crime: a study of changing lives in a Puerto Rican community of Chicago 439
Xavier Perez

PART VI POLITICS, ACTIVISM, AND PUBLIC POLICY REFORMS
29. An academic duty to engage: between research ethics and scholarly activism 457
Antje Deckert, Adele N. Norris and Jessica Martin
30. Whiteness, crime, and Trump 474
Deena A. Isom
31. Defensive whiteness, anti-Blackness, and perceptions of crime and justice 491
Kevin Drakulich and Mia Chewe
32. Exploring community–academic research partnerships within the arena of race, youth justice, and abolition 508
Vera Lopez and Kayla Marie Martensen
33. Media and Māori as criminal: challenging colonial representations 525
Angela Moewaka Barnes, Helen Moewaka Barnes and Timothy McCreanor

PART VII CONCLUSIONS
34. Race, crime, and justice: new directions for theory, research, and policy 542
Kelly Welch