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Crime - Victimization Of Minorities, Minorities As Offenders, Minorities In Prisons And Jails, GangsAdditional TopicsCrime - Victimization Of MinoritiesThe U.S. Bureau of Justice Statistics finds that certain population groups—the poor, younger people, males, African-Americans, Hispanics, and residents of inner cities—are more likely to be victimized and are more vulnerable to violence than other groups. As discussed in other chapters of this book, African-Americans and Hispanics are more likely to be poor and to be unemployed than … Crime - Minorities As OffendersAfrican-Americans—particularly males—commit a higher number of offenses as a proportion of the population than other groups. Between 1976 and 2002, 52.1% of FIGURE 7.3 Percentage of students in grades 9-12 who reported drugs were made available to them on school property during the previous 12 months, by race/ethnicity, 2003 "Figure 10.2. Percentage of Students in Grades 9-1… Crime - Minorities In Prisons And JailsFIGURE 7.5 Young males as a proportion of the population, homicide victims, and homicide offenders, by race, 1976–2002 James Alan Fox and Marianne W. Zawitz, "Young Males as a Proportion of the Population, Homicide Victims, and Homicide Offenders, 1976–2002," in Homicide Trends in the United States, U.S. Department of Justice, Bureau of Justice Statistics, 2004, http://… Crime - GangsTestifying before the U.S. Senate, Steven R. Wiley (April 23, 1997, http://www.hi-ho.ne.jp/taku77/refer/gang.htm) explained that law enforcement agencies define a street gang as a "group of people that form an allegiance based on various social needs and engage in acts injurious to public health and safety." Although gangs have been involved with the drug trade for many years, gang-r… Citing this materialPlease include a link to this page if you have found this material useful for research or writing a related article. Content on this website is from high-quality, licensed material originally published in print form. You can always be sure you're reading unbiased, factual, and accurate information. Highlight the text below, right-click, and select “copy”. Paste the link into your website, email, or any other HTML document.
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over 5 years ago
it would be nice if the population of Black-Americans would get together and decided to bring their standard of living up to civilized. They are the largest percentage of people our government is paying for in prison, on welfare and in rehabs along with "gun" troubles and crimes not to mention unwed mother's with no job skills and men not supporting their fatherless children: the lowest norm in educational standings. . why do they keep having babies when they spend all their time doing drugs, prosituting themselves and draining the money out of a system that was designed for people that needed help in an emergency? they treat it like it was their "rights" or something! that welfare is theirs for the asking. they even say their tax dollars pay for it so why not! What taxes do they pay? they don't even have jobs! only 6% of their population has salary jobs and only 10% work any job! Someone has to be their leader, so maybe mr. obama should be their black president and the rest of the country won't have to apologize for being white or another minority!!