Half of black males in U.S. arrested by age 23...

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[COLOR=#red]Half of black males in U.S. arrested by age 23, study finds[/COLOR]


By Harriet McLeod

CHARLESTON, South Carolina (Reuters) - Almost half of black males and almost 40 percent of white males are arrested in the United States by the time they are 23 years old, according to a study released this week.

In findings published in the journal Crime & Delinquency, researchers at several universities studied a representative sample of 7,335 people who reported that they'd been arrested at a young age, said Robert Brame, criminology professor at the University of South Carolina and lead author of the study.

Researchers found that more black and Hispanic men had been arrested as youths than white men for something other than a minor traffic violation. More men than women had been arrested by the time they are 23 years old.

By the time they reached 18 years old, 30 percent of black and 26 percent of Hispanic males compared to 22 percent of white males had been arrested.

By the time they reached 23 years old, 49 percent of black males, 44 percent of Hispanic males, and 38 percent of white males had been arrested for something other than a minor traffic violation.

Arrest rates among girls and women were about the same for white, Hispanic and black women, the study found.

The negative impacts of arrest include difficulty in gaining employment, housing, admission to college and university and financing for higher education, Brame said. An arrest record also affects civic rights and privileges such as voting or adoption and can damage personal relationships, he said.

"Arrest is public information. The consequences are severe and get more severe when they turn into a conviction," he said. "As a society, we need to think about the consequences of arresting somebody when they're young. I think we underestimate the baggage this creates for people when they're making the transition from adolescent to adult."

In 2010, the team began researching what fraction of the U.S. population has been arrested, using national survey data from 1997-2008 from the Bureau of Labor Statistics. Last year, the researchers reported that one-third of Americans had been arrested by age 23.

"Nobody had really looked at this question since the 1960s," Brame said.

"Higher arrest records as time goes on are partly due to the presence of police officers in schools and greater likelihood that crimes such as domestic violence are reported more than they were in the past, Brame said.

"A school-to-prison pipeline means that with officers in schools there are more arrests in and around school property for lots of minor offenses," he said. "There is a tendency to police things in the schools that maybe would have been handled informally in the past."

NEXT STEPS FOR RESEARCH

Next, researchers will look at what crimes young people are arrested for, how often arrest turned into conviction and how many re-arrests and re-convictions the study group had, Brame said.

They'll also look at whether there are race differences in the types of offenses that lead to arrest and whether there's a race bias in conviction rates, he said.

(Editing by David Adams and Cynthia Osterman)


http://news.yahoo.com/half-black-males-u-arrested-age-23-study-210629624.html

I knew that black males had higher, disproportionate, rates of arrests relative to males belonging to other racial groups, but this revelation was really surprising.

49%, ~50% by the age of 23; one out of every two--that's just crazy.

Obviously, there's some legitimacy to some of these arrests, but common sense should tell you that a great deal of racial profiling and victimization is happening. I refuse to believe that half of all black males are criminals. It's nonsensical.






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[dankenstien88]

Honestly.... the discrepancy between Black, Hispanic and White isn't as large as I thought it was going to be.

 

[RIP sleazyy]

Honestly.... the discrepancy between Black, Hispanic and White isn't as large as I thought it was going to be.

I check the website for my city fairly often.

It seems like now they're not just using race, they're looking for a certain age group. 16-24 year olds are the new black (here at least). People I would never even expect to get pulled over are catching cases now.

 

[sundoobie]

I refuse to believe that half of all black males are criminals. It's nonsensical.
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It really isn't nonsensical when you compare it to the prison population demographics. Yes I understand a lot of factors are involved such as racial profiling however these folks were still charged with a crime and convicted... right?

African Americans make up 13.6 percent of the U.S. population according to census data, but black men reportedly make up 40.2 percent of all prison inmates.

What's terrible is that a good majority of them were convicted for non violent drug offenses.

@ Private Prison Corporations

Criminal: How Lockup Quotas and "Low-Crime Taxes" Guarantee Profits for Private Prison Corporations

http://www.inthepublicinterest.org/sites/default/files/Criminal-Lockup Quota-Report.pdf

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[sreggie101]

i think obama pardoned a handful of non violent offenders few months ago, one of whom was a first time drug offender, nonviolent. he got life tho

prison demographic disparities like this shouldn't be anything new to anyone tho....shouldn't.

 

[beh235]

P4L

 

[heliumclinton]

Obviously, there's some legitimacy to some of these arrests, but common sense should tell you that a great deal of racial profiling and victimization is happening. I refuse to believe that half of all black males are criminals. It's nonsensical.

Why are you already looking for excuses instead of accountability?

 

[GTA 809]

Be the change you want to see.

We already know what it is and it's not changing overnight so make it your business to land on the other side of that percentage even if the cards are stacked again you.

 

[SoleByThePound]

Why are you already looking for excuses instead of accountability?

 

[frshstunna]

Just be careful out here in these streets...

 

[RIP sleazyy]

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[htownshoefiend]

I'm surprised the rates between blacks and whites weren't that far apart.

 

[beh235]

I recorded that CNBC special Billions Behind Bars: Inside America's Prison Industry on my DVR. I've watched only a few min. I'll comment after. I will say this, once I realized that prison is big business I just 

. Imagine those in this world that don't understand that concept.

 

[og_Rodney]

25 and never been in cuffs, 

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[gllahone84]

Big business it is...

and they're still trying to put that inferiority complex into young black youth by putting this out there. 

Arrested because of a racist system, which targets minorities unfairly, come on, if they want to release statistics they should also talk about discriminatory practices used to arrest, and subjugate a population that is still under attack by those in positions of power. 

 

[Meangene45]

Never been arrested and I am old as hell now.

 

[gllahone84]

Two sides to the spectrum, but as always in America, the minority is the scapegoat for societal ills, and why are they trying to gloss over racial biases in regards to arrest made on minorities?  When this has been going on rapidly since Reagan came into to office?

Why 30 years after Reagan and his mass incarceration tactics aimed at blacks and Latinos, are we still asking about a racial bias that underscores these statistics?

 

[beh235]

 
Big business it is...

and they're still trying to put that inferiority complex into young black youth by putting this out there. 

Arrested because of a racist system, which targets minorities unfairly, come on, if they want to release statistics they should also talk about discriminatory practices used to arrest, and subjugate a population that is still under attack by those in positions of power. 

Yup

 

[timbo109]

Given the stats, it seems like this is a youth/gender issue rather than a race issue.

 

[gllahone84]

Given the stats, it seems like this is a youth/gender issue rather than a race issue.

Bruh...

Blacks supposedly make up 12% of the population, supposedly, but that percentage has remained the same since I was a kid, so I don't know who is coming up with that...

But for blacks to make up only 12% of a total population, and this is America's doing, the added emphasis on race, where if we would all be considered Americans, instead of some of us being hyphenated to make a distinction for census purposes, then a divisional mind-state in regards to the imaginary concept of race would have no place for existence. 

So the article made it a race issue by its title alone, and the people who write these articles know exactly what they are doing, they put out figures so the masses can think in terms of division, its a tactic the elite and wealthy use to keep people ignorant of their power ploys. 

The first sentence is an attempt to make a black person feel inferior, the first sentence, where if words are powerful in shaping public discourse and opinion, this sentence alone is a tool used to make me feel inferior. On a subconscious level this is true. 

 

[Meangene45]

The older you get the less likely your going to commit a crime.

 

[gllahone84]

The older you get the less likely your going to commit a crime.

Thanks!!!

 

[$tacy]

24, from detroit, ain't eem seen the other side of the bars.... momma we made it
S/O to all all my old homies from my old street tho. Out of a 7 man crew only 2 of us walk these streets today

 

[fresh out dabox]

im not suprised

 

[notoriousmro]

Why are you already looking for excuses instead of accountability?