Crime, Minorities, and the Social Contract

Criminal Justice Ethics

Volumn 9, Issue 2, 1990, Pages 16-24

  Lawson, Bill ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF DELAWARE   (United States)

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EID: 79959761633     PISSN: 0731129X     EISSN: 19375948     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/0731129X.1990.9991878     Document Type: Article

References (25)

1. See, e.g., C. Pateman, The Problem Of Political Obligation (New York, 1985).
2. R.W. Grant, John Lockes Liberalism 163 (1987).
3. J. Locke, The Second Treatise Of Government §219 (T. P. Peardoned. 1952).
4. Id. at § 240.
5. Bowman, Families are Caught in Crossfire, USA Today, Feb. 19, 1989, at 1A.
6. Williams, Liberals Have Sold Blacks Down the River, Special Issue: New Dimensions, 1989, at 77.
7. J. Locke, supra note 3, at § 166.
8. R.W. Grant, supra note 2, at 84.
9. Is the Fight on Drugs Eroding Civil Right, N. Y. Times, May 6, 1990, at 5E.
10. R. W. Grant, supra note 2, at 84.
11. Farrakhan’s Mission, Newsweek, March 19, 1990, at 25.
12. J. Locke, § 208.
13. For example, a survey in Minneapolis-St.Paul revealed that crime- and drugs-related violence were the number one concern of residents of the Twin cities. This is not surprising given the rise in drug related crimes in most American cities. Star Tribune, February 21, 1989, at 5 Be.
14. “Whole sections of urban America are being written off as anarchic badlands, places where cops fear to go and acknowledge: “This is Beirut, U.S.A.,” U.S. News & World Report, April 10, 1989, at 20.
15. N. Y. Times, Aug. 13, 1989, A22.
16. U.S. Department Of Justice, Criminal Victimization In The United States, 1987 (June 1989). This and the data that immediately follow in the text are found on pp. 3-5 of this report.
17. In a Gallup Report, when asked if “In general do you think the police in your community do a good, fair or poor job against crime,” 60 percent of whites versus 39 percent of blacks answered “good.” The Gallup Poll, The Gallup Report 8 (March/April 1989).
18. Victims of Crime, U.S. News & World Report, July 31, 1989, at 16.
19. How We Can Win the War on Poverty, Fortune, April 10, 1989, at 125.
20. M. Walzer, Obligations: Essays On Disobedience, War, And Citizenship 68 (Cambridge, Mass., 1970).
21. W. J. Wilson, The Truly Disadvantage (1987).
22. M. Hlndelang, M. Gotteredson & J. Garofalo, Victims Of Personal Crime: A N Empirical Foundation For A Theory Of Personal Victimization 257 (1974).
23. Denton & Massey, Residential Segregation of Blacks, Hispanics, and Asians by Socioeconomic Status and Generation, 69 Sex:. Sex Q. 805 (1988).
24. Id. at 814.
25. See Lawson, Locke and the Legal Obligations of Black Americans, 3 Pub. Aff. Q. 49 (1989).