For many years, notes Alex Piquero, youth of color have been overrepresented at every
stage of the US juvenile justice system. As with racial disparities in a wide variety of social …

In “Toward a Theory of Race, Crime, and Urban Inequality,” Sampson and Wilson (1995)
argued that racial disparities in violent crime are attributable in large part to the persistent …

The study outlined in this article drew on Elijah Anderson's (1999) code of the street
perspective to examine the impact of neighborhood street culture on violent delinquency …

This review, published on the twenty-fifth anniversary of the publication of Code of the Street
(1999), considers the legacies of Elijah Anderson's groundbreaking analysis of the …

Although numerous studies have found a strong relationship between offending and
victimization risk, the etiology of this relationship is not well understood. Largely absent from …

Prominent explanations of the overrepresentation of Black Americans in criminal justice
statistics focus on the effects of neighborhood concentrated disadvantage, racial isolation …

Scholars have long argued that inmate behaviors stem in part from cultural belief systems
that they “import” with them into incarcerative settings. Even so, few empirical assessments …

Official record studies consistently show that Blacks exhibit higher levels of involvement in
criminal offending than Whites do. Although self-report studies suggest somewhat lower …

We use 16 characterizations of crews, codes, and contexts to determine if offender
subcultures (code of the street, convict code, street and prison gangs) converge …

This study assesses the role of social context in explaining racial and ethnic disparities in
arrest, with a focus on how distinct neighborhood contexts in which different racial and …