Papers by Darnell Hawkins
Race and Justice
The author explores within the context of academia the interpersonal and structural dynamics that... more The author explores within the context of academia the interpersonal and structural dynamics that underpin the systemic racism to which the Black Lives Matter movement responds.
Contemporary Sociology, 1992
Blacks have long been the individuals most likely to be the victims and offenders in willfully mo... more Blacks have long been the individuals most likely to be the victims and offenders in willfully motivated acts of lethal violence. The risk of homicide victimization in the nation's black communities waxes and wanes as an apparent result of a series of external shocks to ...
Contemporary Sociology, 1979
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Contemporary Sociology: A Journal of Reviews, 2018
Inequality, Crime, and Social Control, 2018
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Frames conceptual and methodological issues involved in the study of ethnic and racial difference... more Frames conceptual and methodological issues involved in the study of ethnic and racial differences in violent crime
This essay begins by observing that most homicide extant studies employ either national data or c... more This essay begins by observing that most homicide extant studies employ either national data or city-level sources of data, the author argues that neither provides the kind of nuanced analyses that can lead to greater insights into the causes of ethnic and racial differences. Then, data at the level of counties are used to illustrate the insights that might be gained from future explorations using such disaggregated homicide statistics.
request for submissions for special issue on health disparities and crime/justice among African A... more request for submissions for special issue on health disparities and crime/justice among African American males
Journal of Offender Rehabilitation
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Reprint of Hawkins, Social Forces 65(3): 719-745
Reprint of Hawkins (1987) Violence in the Black Family, Pp. 189-205
The socio-economics of crime and justice, 1993
Page 105. DARNELL HAWKINS Crime and Ethnicity One of the pervasive facts of life in late twentiet... more Page 105. DARNELL HAWKINS Crime and Ethnicity One of the pervasive facts of life in late twentieth-century America is the dispro-portionate representation of African-Americans, Native Americans, and Latinos among those arrested, convicted, and punished for crime. ...
Police Quarterly, 2008
The purpose of this study is to extend our understanding of attitudes toward the police by examin... more The purpose of this study is to extend our understanding of attitudes toward the police by examining how race/ethnicity, social class, and neighborhood context interact to influence four different dimensions of attitudes: neighborhood, global, police services, and fear of the police. The results showed significant racial/ethnic variation in perceptions of the police, with African-Americans reporting the most negative attitudes. The magnitude of the racial/ethnic gap, however, varied across the different attitude dimensions with the largest difference between African-Americans and Whites in terms of fear of the police. The findings also suggested that African-Americans' and Hispanics' perceptions of the police are moderated by the interaction of social class and neighborhood socioeconomic composition. Middle-class African-Americans and Hispanics who resided in disadvantaged neighborhoods reported more negative attitudes toward the police than those who resided in more advanta...
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