Cover -- Half-title -- Series-title -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- Contributors -- Foreword -- Editor's Introduction -- Contexts and Cautions -- Coverage and Scope of Volume -- PART I Homicide Studies -- CHAPTER ONE Homicide Risk and Level of Victimization in Two Concentrated Poverty Enclaves: A Black/Hispanic Comparison -- Introduction -- Concentrated Poverty Neighborhoods: Environments of Violent Victimization -- Milwaukee, Wisconsin: A Temporary Target of Economic Dislocation -- The Microspatial Targets of Investigation -- Why So Few Comparisons of Levels of Black and Hispanic Victimization? -- Milwaukee: A Newcomer to High Homicide Victimization -- Acts of Lethal Violence and Differential Neighborhood Stress Levels -- Homicide in Target Neighborhoods -- Victim/Offender Relations -- Summary and Conclusion -- CHAPTER TWO Moving Beyond Black and White Violence: African American, Haitian, and Latino Homicides in Miami -- The Present Study -- Significance and Background -- Research Setting -- Data and Method -- Results -- Poisson Results -- Discussion and Conclusion -- Future Directions -- CHAPTER THREE Homicide in Los Angeles County: A Study of Latino Victimization -- Latinos in the United States -- Latinos in Los Angeles -- Research Issues -- Gangs, Race/Ethnicity, and Male Rates -- Weapon -- Precipitating Event -- Method -- Results -- Race/Ethnicity and Gender Rates -- Weapons -- Precipitating Events -- Conclusions -- Weapons and Precipitating Circumstances -- CHAPTER FOUR Economic Correlates of Racial and Ethnic Disparity in Homicide: Houston,1945-1994 -- Introduction -- Previous City-Level Homicide Research -- Houston and Twentieth-Century Homicide -- Economic Indicators of Homicide Risk -- Houston Yesterday and Today -- Steps in the Analysis -- Characteristics of Houston Homicide over Time -- Summary.

CHAPTER FIVE The Race/Ethnicity and Poverty Nexus of Violent Crime: Reconciling Differences in Chicago's Community… -- Introduction -- Data Sources -- Measures -- Analysis Plan -- Results -- Discussion and Conclusion -- Appendix -- PART II Other Contexts, Settings, and Forms of Violence -- CHAPTER SIX Sanction Effects, Violence, and Native North American Street Youth -- Origins and Elaborations of the Labeling Approach -- Labeling, Street Youth, and Aboriginal Involvement in Crime -- Studying Sanctioning Effects Among Aboriginal Youth -- Results -- Discussion -- CHAPTER SEVEN Ethnicity and Interpersonal Violence in a New Zealand Birth Cohort -- Historical Prologue -- Introduction -- Method -- Results -- Discussion -- CHAPTER EIGHT Racist Victimization in England and Wales -- Introduction -- The Extent and Nature of Racist Victimization -- Racist Offending: from Profiling to Explanation -- Responses to Racist Violence -- Racist Violence in England and Wales after the Lawrence Inquiry -- Conclusion -- CHAPTER NINE Race, Gender, and Woman Battering -- Introduction -- The Scope of the Problem -- Part Two: Racial Dimensions of Battering -- Black Female Suicidality: An Illustration of Coercive Control -- The Battered Woman's Shelter -- PART III. Explaining the Dynamics of Woman Battering Among Blacks -- Conclusions -- CHAPTER TEN Gender Entrapment and African-American Women: An Analysis of Race, Ethnicity, Gender, and Intimate Violence -- Introduction -- A Different Approach -- Conclusion -- PART III Explaining Racial and Ethnic Differences -- CHAPTER ELEVEN How Can the Relationship between Race and Violence be Explained? -- Racial Differences in Violence -- Explaining Racial Differences -- The Pittsburgh Youth Study -- Explanatory Variables -- Official and Reported Violence -- Predictors of Violence -- Multivariate Analyses -- Ethnicity and Risk Factors.

Conclusions -- CHAPTER TWELVE "Race Effects" and Conceptual Ambiguity in Violence Research: Bringing Inequality Back In -- Dominant Perspectives on Race/Ethnicity and Violence -- Theoretical Reconceptualization -- Conclusion -- CHAPTER THIRTEEN The Violent Black Male: Conceptions of Race in Criminological Theories -- Literature Review: Explaining Race Differences in Violence -- Critique -- Conclusions -- CHAPTER FOURTEEN The Structural-Cultural Perspective: A Theory of Black Male Violence -- Introduction -- The Problem -- The Scholarly Heritage of Structural and Cultural Perspectives on Race and Violence -- New Theoretical Directions: Combining Structure and Culture -- Dysfunctional Cultural Adaptations -- Routine Activities in the Streets -- Definition of the Situation -- Overview and Conclusions -- CHAPTER FIFTEEN A Cultural Psychology Framework for the Study of African-American Morality and Violence -- CHAPTER SIXTEEN Racial Discrimination and Violence: A Longitudinal Perspective -- The Setting -- Method and Measurement -- Results -- Summary and Discussion -- CHAPTER SEVENTEEN Honor, Class, and White Southern Violence: A Historical Perspective -- Introduction -- Southern Violence -- Passion, Violence, and Self-Control -- Honor and Its Meaning -- Honor and Class in the South -- Gentility and the Southern Gentleman -- Violence and the Lower-Class White Male -- Masculinity and the Southern Male -- Southern Honor and Black Rapists -- A Contemporary Culture of Honor -- Conclusions -- References -- Author Index -- Subject Index.