Citation

Green E. Am. Sociol. Rev. 1970; 35(3): 476-490.

Copyright

(Copyright © 1970, American Sociological Association)

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Abstract

The Negro-white arrest rate differential for selected years between 1942 and 1965 in a northern industrial community is analyzed with respect to age, sex, and the socioeconomic variables of employment status, occupation, and migration. Although the incidence of recorded Negro crime has greatly increased since 1942 owing to the increase in the Negro population, the rate of Negro crime has decreased. The magnitude of the excess of the Negro over the white arrest rate reflects the wider distribution among Negroes of the lower social class characteristics of unemployment, employment in unskilled and semiskilled occupations, and migration from the rural South. The findings do not support color-caste theories which interpret Negro criminal behavior as a response to racial proscriptions or which construe Negro criminality as a function of racially suppressive law enforcement tactics. (Abstract Adapted from Source: American Sociological Review, 1970. Copyright © 1970 by the American Sociological Association)

Racial Differences
Racial Factors
1940s
1950s
1960s
Black-White Comparison
Offender Arrest
Adult Arrest
Adult Crime
Adult Offender
African American Adult
African American Crime
African American Offender
Caucasian Adult
Caucasian Crime
Caucasian Offender
Social Class
Class Factors
Sociocultural Factors
Socioeconomic Factors
Employment Factors
Unemployment Factors
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