Benjamin Bowling

Racism, Crime and Justice offers a broad overview of this challenging and underexplored field. The book synthesises a great deal of empirical research evidence, documentary accounts and illustrative examples in order to give a minority perspective on the race and crime debate. Meer

This book gives a detailed analysis of official documents, and of the historical origins of racist violence. The author then uses the conclusions of his analyses, alongside an in-depth case study of racial attacks and police response in East London, to analyse why the ideas and language of white supremacy and racial exclusion direct violence at `non-white' individuals, and why the police response is so routinely ineffectual. Meer