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31 Crime & Delinquency 3 (1985)

handle is hein.journals/cadq31 and id is 1 raw text is: Race, Crime, and Criminal Justice Roland Chilton Jim Galvin Some of the most inconvenient facts of American life are those suggesting an over involvement of black males in most types of criminal conduct. Whether estimated from arrests made by the police or reports of victims of several types of crime, the number of crimes attributed to black males is much higher than we would expect based on the size of the black population in the United States.' Other statistics show black over-representation in United States court systems, in local jails, in prisons, and on death row. Even after the revolutionary changes in race relations, brought about by the civil rights movement over two decades ago, these figures have remained relatively constant. Moreover, the statistics and the trends they reflect suggest that there may be even greater disparities between black and white involvement in the future. It is for these reasons that we felt that a special issue devoted to race, crime, and criminal justice would be both appropriate and timely. Recognizing the fact that articles submitted for this issue would have quite different emphases and go in different directions, we searched for both those that reflected empirical examinations of linkages between race, crime, and related factors, and those that reviewed what is known about differences in the treatment of racially identifiable people in various systems of criminal justice. Because our focus was on race rather than ethnicity in its broadest definition, we tried to find papers that focused on the impact and importance for crime and criminal justice of racially identifiable differences among people rather than on linguistic or cultural differences only indirectly related to race. The facts presented below and analyzed in the articles of this issue are inconvenient from a number of perspectives. They are inconvenient for ROLAND CHILTON: Professor of Sociology at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst. JIM GALVIN: Visiting Scholar at the University of California, Berkeley, Senior Research Associate at the National Council on Crime and Delinquency, and, since 1983, Editor of Crime and Delinquency. CRIME & DELINQUENCY, Vol. 31 No. 1, January 1985 3-14 @ 1985 Sage Publications, Inc. 3 from the SAGE Social Science Collections. All Rights Reserved.

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