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Handbook on Crime and Inequality

Edited by: Stephen Farrall, Susan McVie

ISBN13: 9781800883598
To be Published: January 2025
Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing Limited
Country of Publication: UK
Format: Hardback
Price: £225.00



In this Handbook, Stephen Farrall and Susan McVie bring together a diverse array of leading experts to examine the relationship between different aspects of crime and inequality. They employ a variety of geographical and individual lenses and use case studies from the Global North and South.

Expanding upon current knowledge and introducing new research, the chapters provide dynamic and multidimensional perspectives. They focus on a range of criminological topics, including victimization, offending, attitudes towards punishment, policing processes and the fear of crime. They also interrogate various competing and overlapping measures of inequality. Contributing authors illustrate the conceptual, theoretical and methodological challenges of studying crime and inequality, and underscore the need for engagement by criminologists in this under-researched field.

The Handbook on Crime and Inequality is a vital resource for students and scholars of criminology, inequalities, welfare states, urban sociology and social policy. Policymakers and legal practitioners will also find its insights beneficial for understanding communities and informing governance.

Subjects:
Criminology
Contents:
I Introduction
1. Introduction to the Handbook on Crime and Inequality 2
Stephen Farrall and Susan McVie

II The impact of economic inequalities on crime at varying geospatial or geographical levels 13
2. The spatial scale of inequality and crime: comparing egohoods across four cities 14
John R. Hipp
3. Income inequality and property crime: cross-country evidence 35
Thomas Goda and Alejandro Torres García
4. How population aging is associated with economic inequality and homicide trends 56
Mateus Rennó Santos, Dikla Yogev and Yunmei Lu
5. Inequality, poverty and homicide: cross-national evidence 78
Paul Norris
6. Fear of crime and economic equality: the European cross-national perspective 105
Pietari Kujala and Mikko Niemelä

III. Impact of institutional and state-based interventions on inequalities
7. Is the policing prioritisation of and response to crime equitable? An examination of frontline policing deployment to incidents of violence-against-the-person 126
Jon Bannister, Monsuru Adepeju and Mark Ellison
8. Bad medicine? Drugs policing, harm reduction and social inequality 148
Will Mason and Lauren Wroe
9. State crime, state violence and inequalities 172
Susanne Karstedt

IV. Perspectives on crime and inequality from the global south
10. Inequality, poverty and the perpetration of violent crime in South Africa 199
Guy Lamb and Giselle Warton
11. Changing crime trends and their association with inequality among provinces in mainland China over 35 years 220
Yijing Li and Geping Qiu
12. Crime and inequality in India 238
Devika Hazra
13. Crime, punishment and inequality in Brazil: reflections from the Global South 259
Marcos César Alvarez, Marcelo Campos and Fernando Salla
14. The impact of fear of crime, victimization, trust in the police, and inequalities on emigration in Central and South America 284
Amanda Graham

V. The influence of macro- and micro-level change on crime and inequality
15. A life course perspective on the relationship between educational mobility, relative deprivation, and criminal offending 312
Christopher R. Dennison and Raymond R. Swisher
16. Social change and birth cohort differences in recorded crime: is there increasing or decreasing inequality among young offenders from different social backgrounds? 327
Anders Nilsson, Olof Bäckman, Felipe Estrada and Fredrik Sivertsson
17. The impact of childhood inequalities on serious offending in adolescence: insights from the Edinburgh Study of Youth Transitions and Crime 349
Lesley McAra and Susan McVie
18. The role of political ideology in the production of inequitable outcomes and crime 375
Stephen Farrall and Emily Gray

VI. Inequalities in the context of the crime drop
19. A crime drop for whom? Conceptualizing and measuring change in victimization inequality 401
Ben Matthews and Susan McVie
20. Race, structural inequalities, and the crime drop 425
Karen F. Parker and Andrew C. Gray
21. Crime inequalities and distributive justice during the crime drop:
evidence from England and Wales in relation to crime incidents, offenders, and defendants 446
James Hunter and Andromachi Tseloni

VII. Closing chapter
22. Inequalities and crime: the centrality of complex or intersecting inequalities 467
Karen Heimer