Handbook on Crime and Inequality: (Elgar Handbooks on Inequality)

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.

Table of Contents:
Contents I Introduction 1 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 125 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 198 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 311 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 400 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 466 22 Inequalities and crime: the centrality of complex or intersecting inequalities 467 Karen Heimer

About the Author :
Edited by Stephen Farrall, Professor, School of Sociology and Social Policy, University of Nottingham and Susan McVie, Professor of Quantitative Criminology, School of Law, University of Edinburgh, UK

Review :
‘In this timely volume, fine scholars demonstrate the enduring relevance of inequalities to understanding crime, and doing something about it. The diverse and deft contributions demonstrate how viewing crime through different inequality lenses is a methodological imperative. The better we get at implementing that imperative, the better we get at understanding what can be done to transform unequal and crime-ridden societies into something better. This thoughtful book helps prise open many doorways to that future.’ ‘The Handbook on Crime and Inequality provides a comprehensive and exciting collection of cutting-edge contributions on the complex relationship between different aspects of crime and inequality. It is an invaluable resource for anyone interested in theoretically insightful, methodologically innovative, and substantively interesting work on one of the key themes of criminology.’