This anthology provides a collection of classic articles in criminology//criminal justice written by black scholars and researchers beginning with W E B Dubois up through Lee Brown, the current mayor of Houston, TX. Articles focus on crime and the black community in social, economic, and political contexts. Never before collected in a single volume, this book offers a chronology of late 19th and 20th century perspectives from African-American scholars who, until recently, have not had a major voice in the development of criminological theory and social policy.

Foreword - Anne Thomas Sulton Introduction Pedagogical Reconstruction: Incorporating African American Persepectives Into the Curriculum - Vernetta D. Young Part I: Historical Classics Southern Horrors: Lynch Law in All Its Phases - Ida B. Wells-Barnett The Negro Criminal - W.E.B. Du Bois Crime Among the Negros of Chicago: A Social Study - Monroe N. Work The Spawn of Slavery: The Convict-Lease System in the South - W.E.B. Du Bois Negro Criminality in the South - Monroe N. Work Rebellious Youth - E. Franklin Frazier Community Factors in Negro Delinquency - Earl R. Moses Differentials in Crime Rates Between Negros and Whites, Based on Comparisons of Four Socio-Economically Equated Areas - Earl R. Moses Part II: Contemporary Classics Unequal Justice in the State Criminal Justice System - A. Leon Higginbotham, Jr. White Racism, Black Crime, and American Justice: An Application of the Colonial Model to Explain Crime and Race - Robert Staples Women, Race, and Crime - Vernetta D. Young Beyond Anomalies: Rethinking the Conflict Perspective on Race and Criminal Punishment - Darnell F. Hawkins Devalued Lives and Racial Stereotypes: Ideological Barriers to the Prevention of Family Violence Among Blacks - Darnell F. Hawkins Community Policing: A Practical Guide for Police Officials - Lee P. Brown Race, Ethnicity, and the Spatial Dynamic: Toward a Realistic Study of Black Crime, Crime Victimization, and Criminal Justice Processing of Blacks - Daniel E. Georges-Abeyie Black Males and Social Problems: Prevention Through Afrocentric Socialization - William Oliver Minority and Female: A Criminal Justice Double Bind - Coramae Richey Mann Development of a Black Criminology and the Role of the Black Criminologist - Katheryn K. Russell The Code of the Streets - Elijah Anderson The Colonial Model as a Theoretical Explanation of Crime and Delinquency - Becky Tatum Racially Based Jury Nullification: Black Power in the Criminal Justice System - Paul Butler The Racial Hoax as Crime: The Law as Afirmation - Kartheryn K. Russell Index About the Editors About the Contributors