Race & Crime

Professor Michael Rowe′s research interests have tended to focus on accountability and governance in policing, and the changing organisation and delivery of policing in relation to diversity, professionalisation, the application of Evidence Based Policing and the challenges of policing in a digital age. A recent project has explored the changing nature of visible policing in relation to the impact of police buildings, material culture and social media on public perceptions of legitimacy and authority, as well as on police officer and staff professional culture and identity. Other projects have examined innovative police responses to domestic violence, organisational and cultural change in the policing of adult sexual assault investigations and the ethical and governance challenges of using scientific research and AI technology in contemporary policing.  He is currently developing work exploring the policing of Anthropocentric climate change. He has published widely on these and related matters in the British Journal of Criminology, Policing and Society, Public Management Review, the Journal of Contemporary Ethnography, Criminology and Criminal Justice and many other journals. His books include Policing the Police (Policy Press, 2020) and Accountability in Policing: Contemporary Debates (Routledge, 2015, edited with Stuart Lister) and Introduction to Policing (Sage, 2018, third edition). He is editor of the International Journal of Police Science and Management.

• ′Race′, ′Crime′ and SocietyIntroductionThe Social Construction of ′Race′The Social Construction of ′Crime′Race and Crime: A Critical EngagementStructure of the BookSummaryStudy QuestionsFurther ReadingRace, Crime and the Criminological ImaginationIntroductionRace and the Development of Classical CriminologyCriminology as Science: Race and the Emergence of the Positivist SchoolRace, Ethnicity and Sociological Positivism′Empiricism′ to ′Social Constructionism′SummaryStudy QuestionsFurther ReadingRace, Crime and Popular CultureIntroductionRace and Crime in News MediaInfotainmentScreen FictionDigital MediaSummaryStudy QuestionsFurther ReadingDisproportionality in OffendingIntroductionStatistical Evidence of Disproportionality Other Evidence of DisproportionalityGuns, Gangs and Street Crime: Mugging and OnwardsRace and Crime: A Critical Realist PerspectiveSummaryStudy QuestionsFurther ReadingRace and VictimizationIntroductionMinority Ethnic Groups and Criminal VictimizationRacist Hate Crime: Victims and PerpetratorsResponding to Racist CrimeSummaryStudy QuestionsFurther ReadingRace, Conflict and Human RightsIntroductionHuman Rights Abuse and the Failure of CriminologyTowards a Criminology of Genocide Criminology, Environmental Harm and Neo-ColonialismSummaryStudy QuestionsFurther ReadingDisproportionality in the Criminal Justice SystemIntroductionMinority Ethnic Groups in the Criminal Justice System of England and WalesInternational ComparisonsExplaining the Over-Representation of Minorities in Criminal Justice SystemsSummaryStudy QuestionsFurther ReadingDiversity and Representation in the Criminal Justice SystemIntroductionRecruitment, Retention and PromotionEnhancing Diversity within the Criminal Justice SystemPromoting the Diversity AgendaWorkforce Diversity: Necessary but Insufficient Conditions for ReformSummaryStudy QuestionsFurther ReadingIslam, Terrorism and Security Introduction: Terrorism and Security into the 21st CenturyMuslims as ′Suspect Communities′SummaryStudy QuestionsFurther ReadingRace and Crime: A Critical EngagementIntroductionEthnic Monitoring in Criminal JusticeSummaryStudy QuestionsFurther Reading

In this wide-ranging and ambitious book, Michael Rowe has managed the difficult feat of being both scholarly and accessible. He provides a critical and thought-provoking analysis of criminology′s long-standing and problematic relationship to questions of race and ethnicity, and, drawing on a range of resources from the local to the global, argues convincingly that criminology should attend more closely to the harms to minority groups that result from the crimes of the powerfulDavid SmithLancaster University In this book, Mike Rowe presents material in relation to the broad area of race and crime in new and refreshing ways. Debates traditionally featured under ′race and crime′ are given a contemporary twist, providing students, researchers, practitioners and others with challenging new insights. The material is clearly presented and very engagingBasia SpalekThe University of Birmingham