This landmark book presents the contributions of African Americans past and present to understanding crime, criminological theory, and the administration of jus

A little more than a century ago, the famous social scientist W.E.B. Du Bois asserted that a true understanding of African American offending must be grounded i

"This collection of writings is crucially important, in part, because it reminds us the theoretical paradigms of these and other African American scholars are e

To this date, efforts to document the scholarly contributions of exclusively African American criminologists are nonexistent. This is a reference work which off

In light of the Black Lives Matter movement and protests in many cities, race plays an ever more salient role in crime and justice. Within theoretical criminolo