The violence of inequality: race and lobbying in the politics of crime and criminal justice in the United States
Xenakis, Sappho and Cheliotis, L.K. (2021) The violence of inequality: race and lobbying in the politics of crime and criminal justice in the United States. In: Lacey, N. and Soskice, D. and Cheliotis, L.K. and Xenakis, S. (eds.) Tracing the Relationship between Inequality, Crime and Punishment: Space, Time and Politics. Proceedings of the British Academy. Oxford, UK: Oxford University Press, pp. 68-93. ISBN 9780197266922.
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Abstract
Book synopsis: The question of inequality has moved decisively to the top of the contemporary intellectual agenda. Going beyond Thomas Piketty's focus on wealth, increasing inequalities of various kinds, and their impact on social, political and economic life, now present themselves among the most urgent issues facing scholars in the humanities and the social sciences. Key among these is the relationship between inequality, crime and punishment. The propositions that social inequality shapes crime and punishment, and that crime and punishment themselves cause or exacerbate inequality, are conventional wisdom. Yet, paradoxically, they are also controversial. In this volume, historians, criminologists, lawyers, sociologists and political scientists come together to try to solve this paradox by unpacking these relationships in different contexts. The causal mechanisms underlying these correlations call for investigation by means of a sustained programme of research bringing different disciplines to bear on the problem. This volume develops an interdisciplinary approach which builds on but goes beyond recent comparative and historical research on the institutional, cultural and political-economic factors shaping crime and punishment so as better to understand whether, and if so how and why, social and economic inequality influences levels and types of crime and punishment, and conversely whether crime and punishment shape inequalities.
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| Item Type: | Book Section |
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| Additional Information: | Reproduced by permission of Oxford University Press. |
| School: | Birkbeck Faculties and Schools > Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences > School of Social Sciences |
| Research Centres and Institutes: | Political Economy and Institutional Studies, Birkbeck Centre for |
| Depositing User: | Sappho Xenakis |
| Date Deposited: | 29 Mar 2021 16:01 |
| Last Modified: | 02 Aug 2023 17:59 |
| URI: | https://eprints.bbk.ac.uk/id/eprint/31882 |
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