Citation

Holdaway S. Br. J. Criminol. 1997; 37(3): 383-400.

Copyright

(Copyright © 1997, Centre for Crime and Justice Studies, Publisher Oxford University Press)

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Abstract

In this paper, recent approaches to the study of race and criminological subjects are reviewed. First, regression analysis is discussed and criticized for its tendency to conceptualize race as a discrete phenomenon, unrelated to the social contexts within which it is manifest. The problem here is an under-theorization of race. Next, the concept of Other', which has been employed by sociologists who work within what has been called the new racism' themes of research, is criticized for a lack of grounding in systematic evidence and neglect of the mundane world. Race is here over-theorized. Using data from two studies of the employment experience of black and Asian police officers, an analysis of processes of racialization grounded in the occupational cultural contexts of policing is advanced to illustrate a preferred approach to the study of race.