TY  - JOUR
PY  - 1987//
TI  - The Interracial Nature of Violent Crimes: A Re-Examination
JO  - American journal of sociology
A1  - O'Brien, Robert M.
SP  - 817
EP  - 835
VL  - 92
IS  - 4
N2  - 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 Violence Intraracial Violence Racial Factors Racial Differences Racial Comparison Caucasian Offender Caucasian Victim Caucasian Violence Caucasian Crime Aggravated Assault Offender Aggravated Assault Victim Crime Victim Victim Characteristics Offender Characteristics Robbery Offender Robbery Victim African American Crime African American Offender African American Victim African American Violence Black-White Comparison 03-00<p />
LA  - en
SN  - 0002-9602
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/
ID  - ref1
ER  -