Chicago's Reckoning: Racism, Politics, and the Deep History of Policing in an American City

ISBN-13: 9780197627860 / Angielski / Twarda / 2022 / 248 str.

John Hagan; Bill McCarthy; Daniel Herda

Recenzje

Chicago's Reckoning rewrites our sociological understanding of power, corruption, crime, and culture. The authors weave together an unprecedented range of data with Studs Turkel-like storytelling to reveal how Chicago's political machine brutally leveraged criminal law to simultaneously advance the agenda of the White political elites while also excluding and containing Black neighborhoods. Understanding a neighborhood's history of exclusion and containment, the authors argue, should be a central explanatory mechanism in any theory of urban inequality.

O autorze

John Hagan is John D. MacArthur Professor of Sociology and Law at Northwestern University and the American Bar Foundation and author of numerous books including Iraq and the Crimes of Aggressive War, Reclaiming Justice, and Who Are the Criminals? Bill McCarthy is the Dean of Rutgers Newark School of Criminal Justice and Professor Emeritus of Sociology at the University of California Davis. He is co-editor of The Oxford Handbook of Gender, Sex, and Crime, with Rosemary Gartner, and co-author with John Hagan of Mean Streets: Youth Crime and Homelessness. Daniel Herda is Associate Professor and Chair of Sociology at Merrimack College and author of papers in Social Forces, Social Science Research, and Ethnic and Racial Studies.