Discuss the findings of various studies on racial/ethnic background and delinquent behavior
What will be an ideal response?
The answer should include the following points:
• African Americans are overrepresented in arrest, conviction, and incarceration relative to their population base.
• African American, Hispanic, and Native American adolescents were involved in significantly higher levels of serious violence than were Caucasians.
• African American adolescents experience and are involved in higher rates of violence, especially armed violence. However, they do not have higher rates of property or drug crime.
• A combination of neighborhood context, socioeconomic status, and social psychological processes can explain most of the relationship between race and violence as well as ethnicity and violence.
• School-level characteristics were related to overall discipline levers, which is consistent with a racial threat hypothesis.
• Ethno-racial inequality in neighborhood crime rates is an outgrowth of racial residential segregation.
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