About the Book

Preface

This book was prepared, with you, the student in mind. It is designed to help you understand

and apply the theories, concepts, and terms related to criminal behavior, social inequality, juvenile

delinquency, and the drug crime relationship.

This book can be used as a stand-alone text for criminal behavior and juvenile delinquency.

The book is also designed to accompany any books in criminology. It may also be used with

any sociology text to enhance specific chapters on crime and deviance, social stratification, race

and ethnicity, population, urbanization, and theory. The text will aide in giving a more thorough

examination of those particular chapters.

The text can be used as supplemental materials in other disciplines such as criminal justice,

specifically juvenile justice and corrections. I would recommend this book to law makers,

legal practitioners, law enforcement officers, correctional officers, and law enforcement

training personnel.

This text is an interdisciplinary approach, multi-directional and multifaceted. "The fields

are changing daily, as new theories of causation are proposed; as novel forms of crime take their

place alongside traditional ones; and as policymakers strive to embrace ever more effective

crime control techniques in legislative debates, social programs, and innovative alternatives to

incarceration, in addition to examining social policies.

Further, this book will provide a historical and sociological perspective on the intersection

of race, communities, and crime. The course will also examine the inequalities that exist in the

criminal justice system, from policy to policing, arrest, sentencing, incarceration and the scope

and significance of the disenfranchisement of the individuals that are affected. The course will

also conceptualize the development of the black community its maintenance and structural

conditions which have a significant impact on criminal behavior.

This book will discuss the theoretical explanations of social inequality, with a focus on social

class. The area upon which I placed more emphasis was the development of the underclass.

The factors significantly related to poverty, the Broken Window Theory, and social disorganization

will be linked to crime.

In chapter 3, you will find a model which illustrates the theoretical views linking

social class and crime. The main objective of the model is to enhance the readers understanding

of the crime and social class relationship, specifically between the underclass and

crime.

- Crime and Social Inequality emphasizes the wide and interdisciplinary variety

of academic perspectives that contribute to a thorough and well-informed

understanding of the crime problem-hence the book's subtitle.

- Crime and Social Inequality is up-to-date. It addresses the latest problems and

discusses innovative alternative perspectives within a well-grounded and

traditional theoretical framework for incarceration.

- Crime and Social Inequality contrasts contemporary issues of crime

and social order with existing and proposed crime control policies, and

recommendations.

The culmination of my academic and professional experiences prepared me to write this

book. Chapter one through three are a demonstration of my knowledge and expertise in crime

and social inequality which was used as a satisfying preliminary examination for my Ph.D.

Chapter four and five were produced as a result of my research interest.

As a Judicial Officer for the West Virginia supreme court of appeals I was allowed to gain

firsthand knowledge of law enforcement, judicial, and correctional applications and procedures.

That was an extremely rewarding experience. Further I witnessed the strong drug crime

relationship, the alarming recidivism rates, disproportionate incarceration rates of the poor and

minorities. I was able to examine the inequalities from policy to policing, arrest, sentencing,

incarceration and the scope and significance of the disenfranchisement of the individuals that

are affected.

As an expert witness in Federal Court, I produced sentencing memorandums on the behalf

of the defendant. I would argue the inequality in sentencing and the ineffective results of

rehabilitation which recidivism rates clearly demonstrate. Further, I explored long term sentences

which produce psychological states such as institutionalization and prisonization. I also

would argue against determinate sentencing, three strikes you're out policies which should not

be applicable for nonviolent offenders, mandatory minimum terms of imprisonment, the King

Pin labels and career criminal labels and statues. Basically, I examined the sentencing disparities

that exist.