Vol. 27, No. 1

A Journal of Crime, Conflict & World Order

Race, Class & State Crime

Vol. 27, No. 1 (2000)

Two themes stand out in this issue. The first concerns the intersection of race, class, and crime. Discussion centers on excessive police violence, criminalization based on racial and ethnic markers, the viability of electoral work versus strategies of civil disobedience, and the varieties of multiculturalism. The second theme revolves around patterns of state crime and human rights violations, ranging from Turkey, Southern Africa and the Horn of Africa, to Guatemala. A related topic is the silencing of women through overt political repression and the seemingly intractable problem of domestic violence in the form of battering in the U.S.

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Editors' Overview of "Race, Class, and State Crime"

Part I: Race, Class, and Crime

The Diallo Verdict: Another "Tragic Accident" in New York's War on Street Crime?

Sidney L. Harring

The Political Awakening of Blacks and Latinos in New York City: Competition or Cooperation?

William W. Sales, Jr., and Rod Bush

The Racialized Construction of Class in the United States

Steve Martinot

The Multicuturalist Problematic in the Age of Globalized Capitalism

E. San Juan, Jr.

The Criminalization of "Black Deprivation" in the United Kingdom

Anita Kalunta-Crumpton

Part II: State Crime and Human Rights

State Crime, Human Rights, and the Limits of Criminology

Penny J. Green and Tony Ward

Unfinished Exorcism: The Legacy of Apartheid in Democratic Southern Africa

Ben Carton

The Silencing of Maya Women from Mamá Maquín to Rigoberta Menchú

Victoria Sanford

Two National Liberation Movements Compared: Oromia and Southern Sudan

Asafa Jalata

Can Restorative Justice Reduce Battering? Some Preliminary Considerations

Lois Presser and Emily Gaarder

Part III: Book Reviews

A Star Spangled Quandary: Cecilia Elizabeth O'Leary, To Die For: The Paradox of American Patriotism

William Preston, Jr.

The Crisis of U.S. Hegemony and the Black Liberation Movement: Rod Bush, We Are Not What We Seem

R. Stanley Oden

In Memorium