Preface This book was prepared, with you, the student in mind. It is designed to help you understand
and apply the theories, concepts, and terms related to criminal behavior, social inequality, juvenile
delinquency, and the drug crime relationship.
This book can be used as a stand-alone text for criminal behavior and juvenile delinquency.
The book is also designed to accompany any books in criminology. It may also be used with
any sociology text to enhance specific chapters on crime and deviance, social stratification, race
and ethnicity, population, urbanization, and theory. The text will aide in giving a more thorough
examination of those particular chapters.
The text can be used as supplemental materials in other disciplines such as criminal justice,
specifically juvenile justice and corrections. I would recommend this book to law makers,
legal practitioners, law enforcement officers, correctional officers, and law enforcement
training personnel.
This text is an interdisciplinary approach, multi-directional and multifaceted. "The fields
are changing daily, as new theories of causation are proposed; as novel forms of crime take their
place alongside traditional ones; and as policymakers strive to embrace ever more effective
crime control techniques in legislative debates, social programs, and innovative alternatives to
incarceration, in addition to examining social policies.
Further, this book will provide a historical and sociological perspective on the intersection
of race, communities, and crime. The course will also examine the inequalities that exist in the
criminal justice system, from policy to policing, arrest, sentencing, incarceration and the scope
and significance of the disenfranchisement of the individuals that are affected. The course will
also conceptualize the development of the black community its maintenance and structural
conditions which have a significant impact on criminal behavior.
This book will discuss the theoretical explanations of social inequality, with a focus on social
class. The area upon which I placed more emphasis was the development of the underclass.
The factors significantly related to poverty, the Broken Window Theory, and social disorganization
will be linked to crime.
In chapter 3, you will find a model which illustrates the theoretical views linking
social class and crime. The main objective of the model is to enhance the readers understanding
of the crime and social class relationship, specifically between the underclass and
crime.
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Crime and Social Inequality emphasizes the wide and interdisciplinary variety
of academic perspectives that contribute to a thorough and well-informed
understanding of the crime problem-hence the book's subtitle.
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Crime and Social Inequality is up-to-date. It addresses the latest problems and
discusses innovative alternative perspectives within a well-grounded and
traditional theoretical framework for incarceration.
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Crime and Social Inequality contrasts contemporary issues of crime
and social order with existing and proposed crime control policies, and
recommendations.
The culmination of my academic and professional experiences prepared me to write this
book. Chapter one through three are a demonstration of my knowledge and expertise in crime
and social inequality which was used as a satisfying preliminary examination for my Ph.D.
Chapter four and five were produced as a result of my research interest.
As a Judicial Officer for the West Virginia supreme court of appeals I was allowed to gain
firsthand knowledge of law enforcement, judicial, and correctional applications and procedures.
That was an extremely rewarding experience. Further I witnessed the strong drug crime
relationshi
