In a post-Macpherson, post-9/11 world, criminal justice agencies are adapting their responses to criminal behaviour across diverse ethnic groups. Race, Crime and Resistance draws on contemporary theory and a range of case studies to consider racial inequalities within the criminal justice system and related organisations.
Exploring the mechanisms of discrimination and exclusion, the book goes beyond superficial assumptions to examine the ensuing processes of mobilisation and resistance across disadvantaged groups. Empirically grounded and theoretically informed, the book critically unpicks the persisting concepts of race and ethnicity in the perceptions and representations of crime.
Articulate and sensitive, the book clarifies complex ideas through the use of chapter summaries, case studies, further reading and study questions. It is essential reading for students and scholars of criminology, race and ethnicity, and sociology.
Introduction: Constructing the Race-Crime Problem
Racialised others and the roots of a racist rationale
The problem with racialised constructions of crime
Racial profiling in a post-Macpherson era
Discourse, method, race, crime and resistance
Book structure and content
Crime Science?
The presentation of black criminality
Science, genetics and racial profiling
Questioning 'race talk'
The Politics of Hate
Contextualising the politics of hate
I hate you so much right now: affect and hate
From the centre to the margins ... and back again
Policing Racism or Policing Race?
Strained relations and Macpherson
Black people within police environments: custody and career
Learning lessons from Macpherson?
Courtin' Justice
Racial bias and the tipping of Portia's scales
Fair courtroom personnel, fair courtroom justice?
Beyond the docks
Proportionate Punishment?
Situating disciplinary racism
Reproducing racial boundaries
Control racism and punishment
Sovereignty and asylum detention
Victims' Rights and the Challenge of Discrimination
Resistance and collective mobilisation
Rethinking political identities
Unsettling traditional modes of politics
Forms of Resistance
Contextualising race and resistance
Discourse, racism, essentialism and anti-essentialism
Muslim resistance: from Rushdie to the Danish cartoon protests
Researching the Agenda
Generating knowledge on race and crime
Barriers in researching race matters
Presenting accurate and meaningful data
Conclusion: Re-Constructing Race and Crime
Reconsidering 'scientific' racism
The question of races
Biopolitics
Racialised governmentality and the legacy of institutional racism
Resistance
