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I will see if I can find it, but basically, the entire racial connection to crime disappears when you factor class/income into the analysis. Income/wealth is the most powerful and significant predictor of crime, and that income/wealth in America is highly racialized, but it also predicts crime rates among white people, as well.
I mean, yeah, but some losers really do have to be shown this shit lol.
accepting the premise here is such a cop out. You're right, of course
I'm not sure how I'm accepting the premise? The "racial" connection breaks down because it doesn't explain crime rates among poor whites. When you factor in income inequality, it explains crime rates across races and race ends up not being a statistically significant predictor.
No not you! Sorry, I meant the 'argument' itself is bunkum, and only used to further denigrate black people/imply innate criminality.
I hope you have it filed up or something... ty for your effort at least....
It's been years since we talked about it in college in one of my classes.
https://www.jstor.org/stable/2095046
That is a paper that covers it, but there are other ones out there that come to the same conclusion. I think there might be one from the FBI that also comes to that conclusion. It matches up with other research from the World Bank, which has found that the single most powerful predictor of the variance in violent crime rates between US states and between countries is income inequality (even more so than stuff like the number of guns, which has kind of a dubious statistical connection, anyways).
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2017/dec/08/income-inequality-murder-homicide-rates
Thanks! I'm going to check upon the articles