@article{ref1,
title="The Interracial Nature of Violent Crimes: A Re-Examination",
journal="American journal of sociology",
year="1987",
author="O'Brien, Robert M.",
volume="92",
number="4",
pages="817-835",
abstract="Several authors have recently challenged the conception that violent crimes in the United States are disproportionately intraracial. They have posited a special propensity for black offenders to seek out white victims because of black rage and have pointed to the desirable characteristics of white victims. In this paper, three models of the race of offender and victim are developed using aggregate national data on homicide (from the Uniform Crime Reports), rape, aggravated assault, simple assault, and robbery (from the National Crime Surveys.) Whatever measures are used, violent crimes are found to be intraracial to a far greater extent than statistically expected under these models. A structural explanation of these findings is presented. (Abstract Adapted from Source: American Journal of Sociology, 1987. Copyright © 1987 by The University of Chicago Press)Interracial ViolenceIntraracial ViolenceRacial FactorsRacial DifferencesRacial ComparisonCaucasian OffenderCaucasian VictimCaucasian ViolenceCaucasian CrimeAggravated Assault OffenderAggravated Assault VictimCrime VictimVictim CharacteristicsOffender CharacteristicsRobbery OffenderRobbery VictimAfrican American CrimeAfrican American OffenderAfrican American VictimAfrican American ViolenceBlack-White Comparison03-00<p />",
language="en",
issn="0002-9602",
doi="",
url="http://dx.doi.org/"
}