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623 Annals Am. Acad. Pol. & Soc. Sci. 7 (2009)

handle is hein.cow/anamacp0623 and id is 1 raw text is: Introduction By LAUREN J. KRIVO and RUTH D. PETERSON The strong links among race, ethnicity, crime, and justice in the United States are widely recognized in academic literature, policy discourse, and the popular media. Despite widespread recognition of this racial and ethnic patterning of crime and justice, our under- standing of the sources and consequences of these links is limited. In part, this reflects that researchers seldom approach the topic consid- ering the fundamentally structural underpinnings of racialized justice. Thus, current knowledge begs the question of how inequality in crime and justice is an outgrowth of structured soci- etal inequality and the dynamic ways that individuals interact with social structures. This results in a narrow criminological understand- ing which is reflected in the conclusion of a Lauren J. Krivo is a professor of sociology and associate director >of the Criminal Justice Research Center at Oh io State Unirs ity. Her research focuses on explaining race-ethnic differences in neighborhood crime; patterns and consquences of the spatial dynamics of race-ethnic and economic segregation; and the interrelationships among residential segregation, socioeconomic context, and crime. She is coeditor of The Many Colors of Crime (New York University Press 2006) and a recipient of the American Society qf Criminology's Division on People qf Color and Crime's Julius Debro Award. Ruth D. Peterson is a distinguished professor of social and behavioral sciences, professor of sociology, and director of the Criminal Justice Research Center at Ohio State University. Her research focuses on com- munity conditions and crime, racial and ethnic inequal- ity in crime, and the consequences of criminal justice policies for racially and ethnically distinct communi- ties. She is a fellow of the American Society o f Criminology (ASC) and a recipient of its Division on People of Color and Crime's Julius Debro Award. She has also reived Ohio State University's Joan Huber Fellowship ian d the Ohio Department of Rehabilitation and Correction's Simon Dinitz Award. NOTE: Direct correspondence to Lauren J. Krivo, Department of Sociology, 238 Townshend Hall, 1885 Neil Avenue Mall, Ohio State University, Columbus, OH 43210; phone: 614-247-6378; fax: 614-292-0855; e-mail: krivo.1@sociology.osu.edu. DOI: 10.1177/0002716208331094 ANNALS, AAPSS, 623, May 2009

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