The White Racialized Center of Criminology

• In Event: Abolish Criminology: Book Panel and Discussion

Abstract

Few criminologists have addressed the conceptualization of decency in our discourse and how the white identity became synonymous with the normal, law-abiding, citizen in the study of criminal behavior. This chapter places the development of positivist criminology within the socio-economic context of its time. The purpose is to illustrate how the dominant school of criminology developed and was inescapably influenced by the white racial frame that emphasized white supremacy.

Author

• Holly Simms-Bruno, University of Indianapolis