Class, Race, Gender and Criminology: Structured Choices and the Life Course (From Race, Gender, and Class in Criminology: The Intersection, P 3-28, 1996, Martin D Schwartz and Dragan Milovanovic, eds. -- See NCJ-164529)

• NCJ Number: 164530
• Author(s): M J Lynch
• Date Published: 1996
• Length: 26 pages
• Sale Source: Garland Publishing, Inc.
• Publication Type: Issue Overview
• Language: English
• Country: United States of America

Annotation

This chapter outlines the ways in which race, class, and gender have been included in radical and critical criminology.

Abstract

A brief history of radical/critical criminology notes that the class-based perspective central to radical criminology has given way to a broader perspective (critical criminology) that makes a greater attempt to include race and gender issues together with class concerns. In attempting to build upon this transformation in criminological thought, this chapter links race, class, and critical criminology to life course or life- history research. It also connects race, class, and gender to the types of choices that are structured into people's lives; and it shows life-course and structured-choice effects by reviewing data on income, wealth, and power disparities that stem from race, gender, and class inequality. It also examines how race, class, and gender intersect to affect the production of crime. 8 notes and 93 references