Violent crime in America is more strongly associated with poverty and with changing social and economic conditions than with race or ethnicity, and patterns of violence are changing. These are among the conclusions of Poverty, Ethnicity, and Violent Crime, a searching analysis that draws on scholarly research from all the social and behavioral sciences. By framing his analysis in terms of different levels of explanation, James Short is able to identify fundamental causal conditions and processes that result in violent crime. The book also examines current policies and political and scholarly controversies concerning the control of violent crime. This book can serve as a text or as supplementary reading for a variety of criminology courses. }Violent crime in America is more strongly associated with poverty and with changing social and economic conditions than with race or ethnicity, and patterns of violence are changing. These are among the conclusions of Poverty, Ethnicity, and Violent Crime, a searching analysis that draws on scholarly research from all the social and behavioral sciences. By framing his analysis in terms of different levels of explanation, James Short is able to identify fundamental causal conditions and processes that result in violent crime. The book also examines current policies and political and scholarly controversies concerning the control of violent crime. This book can serve as a text or as supplementary reading for a variety of criminology courses. }

This volume presents a brief introduction to juvenile delinquency and juvenile delinquents. Juvenile delinquency refers to children who act against the law. The authors present information on the historical contexts of juvenile delinquency, the evolution of the juvenile court system, using data to measure different aspects of juvenile delinquency, how wide spread juvenile delinquency is in our communities, various theories and explanations of juvenile delinquency, ways that society tries to control juvenile delinquency, and the prognosis of controlling juvenile delinquency in the future.

Sixteen distinguished sociologists reflect on broad developments in their areas of interest over the past two or three decades -- the questions that have been asked, the data and methods used, the knowledge generated, and possible future developments in such fields as the sociology of science, racial and ethnic relations, and biosociology. S N Eisenstadt reviews the various theoretical schools, and other contributors discuss broad issues such as: why is sociological knowledge not more cumulative? `In many ways this work does for the cohort that entered the discipline in those decades (60s and 70s) what Merton's Sociology Today did for the cohorts of the 1940s and 1950s, and will, I believe, be seen to have comparable merit.