Cornwall "Brown Bag" Luncheon Seminars

March 2, 2005 - 12:00 noon to 1:30 pm
Dr. Jeanette Covington, Associate Professor from the Rutgers-New Brunswick Department of Sociology presented, Making Race Matter: How Criminologists Look at African-Americans and Violence. Tables and references from Dr. Covington's presentation are listed below in PDF.  

Table 1 - How Criminologists Explain Race Differences in Violence 
Table 2 - How Offender-Centered Theories Make Race Matter 
Table 3 - What Offender–Centered Theories Ignore 
Table 4 - Opportunity Theories 
Table 5 - The Violent Exchange 
Table 6 - Opportunity Theory and Crimes of Self-Help 
Table 7 - Why Race May Not Matter in Opportunity Theories 
References 

All responsibility for the content of this research resides with the author.  For additional information on this research please contact Dr. Covington at COVINGTO@RCI.RUTGERS.EDU 

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