Race and crime

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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.

Contents 1 Statistics 1.1 United States 1.2 Europe 1.3 Other countries 2 See also 3 References 4 External links

[edit] Statistics

[edit] United States

Statistics show that in the United States, Blacks are much more likely than Whites to be convicted of violent crime who are in turn more likely to be convicted of violent crime than Asians are. Statistics and factual evidence have also shown that in the United States, a black person is much more likely to be arrested for a particular crime than a white person is for the exact same crime.

Statistics show [2] that Blacks are more likely to be involved in crime overall.

[edit] Europe

Muslims of mostly Moroccan origin constitute the overwhelming majority of prisoners in France, home to Europe's largest Muslim population, with recent estimates of 70% for the Muslim prison population. It is difficult to come to a precise number, as ethnicity-based censuses are banned in France; Iranian-French sociologist Farhad Khosrokhavar has made estimations using complexion, names, and religious traditions like prohibition of pork.^{[citation needed]}

Britain has a prison population of just over 80,000, 8% of which are Muslim. In Britain blacks are responsible for 26% of the robberies, 10% of the sexual offences and 14% of the drug offences despite the fact they make up only 2% of the population in the UK. (Source: Statistics on Race and the Criminal Justice System.) Sixty-three percent of mugging victims in London reported that their attackers were black. [3]. In Britain, "almost twice as many black people are in prison as at university, according to a report by the Commission for Racial Equality." [4]

[edit] 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. [5]  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. [6]

In New Zealand, 50% of the approximately 6,000 inmates identify as Maori, and Pacific Islanders about 12%, most of them classified as low or medium security inmates. [7]

[edit] See also

• The Gene Illusion
• Nature versus nurture
• Genetics and violence
• Bowling for Columbine
• Marvin D. Free Jr.
• Race and intelligence
• Racial profiling
• Roe effect
• Steven Levitt
• "The Impact of Legalized Abortion on Crime"
• William Bennett
• Sex and crime
• White flight
• Phase Pardhi

[edit] References

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)[8], March 2004. ISBN 2-7158-1493-3
• Race and Crime: An International Dilemma by J. Phillipe Rushton, Society, Jan-Feb 1995.

[edit] 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.
• The Color of Crime: Race, Crime, and Violence in America, from American Renaissance
• "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."[9]

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"

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