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Crime and Inequality Chapter 1 - Criminal Inequality in America Summary By: Bethlyn Johnson The first chapter of Crime and Inequality attempts to explain the patterns of inequality found in research that connects disadvantaged and subordinated groups to crime and delinquency. John Hagan and Ruth D. Peterson explain the correlation between socioeconomically depressed areas and patterns of high delinquency rates that occur there. This chapter goes into great detail examining the patterns of the poor and near-poor with relation to crime and delinquency that occurs in these socially constructed areas. Hagen and Peterson explain that there is a constant influence of community conditions on crime apart from of the populations experiencing them. The connection between crime and inequality occupy a central place in the social organization of society. Those who experience crime and violent crime most frequently are found to be young, disadvantaged, minority males. Hagen and Peterson attempt to explain this phenomenon with...

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