Race and crime in the United States

As of 2001, the chances of going to prison in percentages for various demographic groups

An observed correlation between race and crime has been noted in a number of countries. This has prompted controversy regarding the possible causes and social effects, and regarding which actions should consequently be taken.

Statistics

United States

Defining "white"

Template:Totally-disputed-section While the Census Bureau has a separate category for white non-hispanics and hispanics, the FBI and the Justice Department usually do not. The Justice Department stats usually lump Mestizos, Middle Easterners, North Africans, Jews and certain Filipinos as "white," thus inflating the statistical figure. When the FBI refers to "white" one must remember that this includes the Middle Easterners, Mestizos, North Africans, etc. etc.

Violent crimes

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Statistics show [1] that blacks are convicted of more homicides than "whites".

Blacks are convicted of homicide 7 times more than "whites."[2]

Homicide offenses by race

"White" offenders	Black offenders
45.9%	52.1%

Blacks are also convicted of more sex offenses than "whites."[3]

Sex offenders by race

"White" offenders	Black offenders
48.1%	48.2%

There have been studies to show that black serial killers occur roughly equal to or greater to the proportion of the black population in the United States, with stats ranging from 13% of serial killers being black to 22%.[4]

Cities

The most dangerous cities in the United States tend to have a significant amount of blacks.[5]

Rank	City	White population	Black population
1	St. Louis, MO	42.9%	51.2%
2	Detroit, MI	10.5%	81.6%
3	Flint, MI	40%	53.3%
4	Compton, CA	1%	40.3%
5	Camden, NJ	7.1%	53.3%
6	Birmingham, AL	23.5%	73.5%
7	Cleveland, OH	38.8%	51%
8	Oakland, CA	23.5%	35.7%
9	Youngstown, OH	48.9%	43.8%
10	Gary, IN	10.1%	84%

Europe

Britain

Whites in Britain are the victims of race attacks more than Asians and Blacks put together. However, the proportion of ethnic minorities reporting being the victim of a racially-motivated crime is higher. In Bradford, 58% of victims were white, 35% were Asian and 9% were black.[6]

Almost twice as many black people are in prison as at university, according to a report by the Commission for Racial Equality.[7]

The black prison population has risen by almost 60% under Labour, according to shock new government figures. [..] New Home Office statistics show numbers of African-Caribbean prisoners has leapt a staggering 58% since 1997, with young black men making up over 90% of all black inmates.[8]

63 percent of mugging victims in London reporting that their attackers were black.[9]

Five years ago, the threat from Jamaican gangsters and black British-born crack dealers could have been dismissed as a local difficulty for a handful of inner-city police forces. But today, as the most authoritative study into the threat reveals, Jamaican organised crime groups have infiltrated almost every part of the country.[10]

In 2005, blacks comprise 19% of those sentenced to prison for robberies, 8% of those sentenced for sexual offences and 23% of those sentenced for drug offences.[11]

Blacks are more likely to plead not guilty than whites, are more likely to be released on parole than white prisoners and black defendants are more likely to be acquitted than white defendants. (Sources: Prison statistics England and Wales 2000 and Ethnic differences in decisions on young offenders dealt with by the CPS, Section 95 Findings No.1 (2000)

Black females are around 16 times more likely to go to prison than white females. (Source: Prison statistics England and Wales 2000)

Norway

THIS SECTION IS THE **MOST** DISPUTED OF ALL OF THE SECTIONS. THE BASIS UPON WHICH THIS SECTION IS DISPUTED IS DISCUSSED WITH GREATER DETAIL IN THE DISCUSSIONS.

Around 65% of Oslo's rapists are immigrants of non-Western background, although they make up only 19% of the population. 80% of the victims are Norwegian women. [12]

Other countries

Nations originally established as 'New World' colonies seem to share a common thread - that aboriginal and indigenous peoples have among the highest incarceration rates of their countries' prison populations. And as is the case with African American prisoners, the reasons for such figures continue to be hotly debated.

In Australia, Aborigines have the single highest imprisonment rate of any ethnicity, and make up more than a fifth (20%) of the prison population. [13]  Per 100,000 people, that equates to about 1200-1400 prisoners.

First Nations make up about 2% of Canada's population, but account for 18% of the federal prison population as of 2000. [14] This has largely been attributed to historical factors. Natives in Canada were not allowed to attend public schools until 1967. They were often forcibly removed from their homes and made to attend residential schools, which generally forbade them to speak their own languages and practice their own religions. Abuses at such schools were widespread and have been the subject of many court cases and reconcilation attempts by the churches that ran the schools and the various governments of Canada. These schools were similar to ones in the United States and Australia.

In New Zealand, 50% of the approximately 6,000 inmates identify as Māori and Pacific Islanders about 12%, most of them classified as low or medium security inmates. [15]

See also

• The Gene Illusion
• Nature versus nurture
• Genetics and violence
• Bowling for Columbine
• Marvin D. Free Jr.
• Race and intelligence
• Racial profiling
• Steven Levitt
• William Bennett
• Sex and crime
• White flight

References

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Source: Harrison, Paige M. & Allen J. Beck, PhD, US Dept. of Justice, Bureau of Justice Statistics, Prisoners in 2004 (Washington, DC: US Dept. of Justice, Oct. 2005), Table 12, p. 9.

• Brace, C. Loring (1996). "Racialism and Racist Agendas". American Anthropologist 91 (1): 96-97.
• Prevalence of Imprisonment in the U.S. Population, 1974-2001
• Khosrokhavar, Farhad L'Islam en prison (Islam in Prisons)[16], March 2004. ISBN 2-7158-1493-3
• Race and Crime: An International Dilemma by J. Phillipe Rushton, Society, Jan-Feb 1995.

External links

• Verbal Graffiti, Crime and Justice International - criticism of gangsta rap
• "Mapping The Unmentionable: Race And Crime" by Steve Sailer, February 13 2005, VDARE.
• "Aggressiveness, Criminality and Sex Drive by Race, Gender and Ethnicity"
• Rushton, J.P. (1995). Race and crime: international data for 1989-1990. Psychol Rep. Feb;76(1):307-12.
• "Color Of Crime, Sound Of (Big Media) Silence", Jared Taylor, September 13 2005, VDARE. Abstract: "[This] detailed analysis of government crime data finds [...] high arrest and incarceration rates for blacks and Hispanics - and very low rates for Asians - reflect differences in offense rates, not police or judicial bias."[17]

Source: US Census Bureau, Department of Commerce, Census 2000 Redistricting Data (P.L. 94-171) Summary File for states, Population by Race and Hispanic or Latino Origin for the United States: 2000 (PHC-T-a) Table 1, from the web at http://www.census.gov/population/cen2000/phc-t1/tab01.txt , last accessed September 8, 2001.

• World Prison Population Lists (Fifth Edition) .pdf
• "Criminal Justice Statistics Online"