Violent Racism - Victimization, Policing and Social Context (Paperback, Revised)

This work documents the everyday abuse, assault and intimidation that is suffered by black and Asian people in Great Britain every day, using information gathered in an East London case study. The author explains and analyzes the process through which violence is targeted at these minorities, and the role that the ideas and language of racial exclusion take in this process. The failure of the police to respond to this problem is then looked at in depth. This book is based on detailed analysis of official documents, a victimization survey, interviews and direct observation, seen in the overall context of the history of race relations in Britain. The author describes many of the thousands of racist attacks that have occurred in recent years and the events in the last two decades that have shaped English racism, and the political response to it. In this edition Ben Bowling's Preface examines the racist murder of the black teenager, Stephen Lawrence, whose killing in cold blood on an ordinary English street in April 1993 did not hit the headlines until February 1999, causing reverberations across the whole body of British politics and beyond.

General

Imprint:	Oxford UniversityPress
Country of origin:	United Kingdom
Series:	Clarendon Studies in Criminology
Release date:	September 1999
First published:	2001
Authors:	Benjamin Bowling (Reader in Criminology and Criminal Justice)
Dimensions:	216 x 138 x 22mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Paperback
Pages:	420
Edition:	Revised
ISBN-13:	978-0-19-829878-6
Categories:	Books > Social sciences > Sociology, social studies > Ethnic studies > General Books > Social sciences > Sociology, social studies > Social issues > Equal opportunities Books > Social sciences > Sociology, social studies > Crime & criminology > General Books > Social sciences > Sociology, social studies > Social issues > Violence in society > General Promotions
LSN:	0-19-829878-1
Barcode:	9780198298786

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