In The Philadelphia Negro (1899), W.E.B. Du Bois stresses “Crime is a phenomenon of organized social life, and is the open rebellion of an individual against his social environment” (p.235). What is Du Bois’s argument about the causes of crime …
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Welcome to Week 8!
Lesson Overview
This week we will focus on the contributions of W.E.B. Du Bois in criminology. While he is not customarily identified as a criminologist, but many of his writings included discussions about crime. In the …
