Hooks Institute for Social Change and a finalist for the C. He is a co-author of Whitewashing Race: the Myth of a Colorblind Society, winner of the 2004 Book Award from the Benjamin L. His book Crime and Punishment in America, revised and expanded in 2013, was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize in General Nonfiction in 1999. He is the author of many works on crime, delinquency, drug abuse, and social policy, including Confronting Crime: an American Challenge, Dope and Trouble: Portraits of Delinquent Youth, Reckoning: Drugs, the Cities, and the American Future, The Road to Whatever: Middle Class Culture and the Crisis of Adolescence, and The Roots of Danger: Violent Crime in Global Perspective. It was named a New York Times Notable Book of 2020. His most recent book, A Peculiar Indifference: the Neglected Toll of Violence on Black America, explores the sources of enduring racial disparities in violent death and injury in America, and outlines strategies to reduce them.
His work focuses on the social and economic roots of American violence and the problems of the criminal punishment system in the United States. and other countries patterns and causes of violent crime race, violence, and justice social context of delinquency and youth violence roots of drug abuse and the assessment of drug policy.Įlliott Currie is Professor of Criminology, Law and Society at the University of California, Irvine, USA, and Adjunct Professor in the Faculty of Law, School of Justice, Queensland University of Technology, Australia. Professor of Criminology, Law and SocietyĬriminal justice policy in the U.S.
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