If its societies fault alone, why are lower class whites lower class at all?
What makes them poor and uneducated as they were never slaves?
Why can some 'escape' while others never can?
Now this thread will go all political on you, but before that let me add this link...
I'm sure someone will point out this site is all uber conservative, nazi, or has mob ties, I haven't researched it, it was the first hit I could find on the subject.
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Taking Other Factors into Account
The authors' regression analysis shows similar results. Black and white crime rates are affected differently by levels of economic well-being, education, and family stability.
White Crime
For whites, the robbery rate increases when:
* income falls
* inflation goes up
* there are more women working outside the home and more non-traditional households.
The burglary rate increases when:
* income falls
* education levels fall
* the percentage of female-headed households rises
* inflation goes up
* there are more women working outside the home and more non-traditional households.
The homicide rate increases when:
* education levels fall
* inflation goes up.
Black Crime
For blacks, the robbery rate increases when:
* income rises
* education levels rise
* the percentage of female-headed households falls
* the prison rate (percentage of the population in prison) goes up.
The burglary rate increases when:
* education rises
* the percentage of female-headed household falls
* inflation rises.
The homicide rate increases when:
* income rises.
The authors call for more research to analyze why increasing opportunity leads to more, not less, crime for African-Americans. They tentatively conclude that their results may support the findings of scholars like William Julius Wilson (1987, The Truly Disadvantaged). If the African-American community is becoming increasingly divided into a well-off middle-class and a poor urban underclass, rising overall rates of education and economic opportunity for blacks may have little impact on the poorest, crime-ridden urban neighborhoods.
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http://www.children.smartlibrary.org...m?segment=1661
The concept of the above is that as blacks overall are doing better in society their crime rates and being victims of crime seems to be increasing, while the opposite happens for whites.
I think there is more going on here than basic poverty, being poor alone does not make you a criminal and not every problem in the black community is whitey's fault.