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'{{Globalize|date=December 2016}} {{Race}} [[Race (classification of human beings)|Race]] is one of the [[correlates of crime]] receiving attention in academic studies, government surveys, media coverage, and public concern. Several causes of racial disparities in treatment by the criminal justice system have been tested by experts in the sociological field. A majority of their results find that a lack of financial means and low social status are likely factors motivating minorities to commit crime. Additionally, blacks and other ethnic minorities are often sentenced to more time in prison than their white counterparts. 55% of all crimes are committed by niggers despite being less than 13% of the US population, fucking niggers == Racial disparity == The term racial disparity as it relates to crime can be defined as the proportion of a racial or ethnic group within the criminal justice system exceeding the proportion of such a group within the general population. People of color are more likely to be racially profiled, stopped, and harassed by the police.<ref name=":0">{{cite book|title=The Color of Crime|date=2009|edition=Second|last1=Russell-Brown|first1=Katheryn}}</ref> Racial disparities in the US criminal justice system worsened after 1980 following various political developments. The Nixon, Reagan and Bush administrations are credited for directing what is known as the [[War on Drugs]]. In 1986, the U.S. Congress passed laws that created a 100 to 1 sentencing disparity for the trafficking ''or possession'' of [[crack cocaine|crack]] when compared to penalties for ''trafficking'' of [[cocaine|powder cocaine]],<ref name="wa-post-dispar-2010">{{Cite news|title=Congress passes bill to reduce disparity in crack, powder cocaine sentencing|author=Jim Abrams|work=Washington Post|date=July 29, 2010|url=http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/07/28/AR2010072802969.html}}</ref><ref name="celling-america-246-247"/><ref>{{cite web| author = United States Sentencing Commission | title = Cocaine and Federal Sentencing Policy | year = 2002 | page = 6 | url = http://www.ussc.gov/r_congress/02crack/2002crackrpt.pdf | archiveurl = https://web.archive.org/web/20070715212213/http://www.ussc.gov/r_congress/02crack/2002crackrpt.pdf | archivedate = July 15, 2007 | accessdate=August 24, 2010 | quote = As a result of the 1986 Act ... penalties for a first-time cocaine trafficking offense: 5 grams or more of crack cocaine = five-year mandatory minimum penalty}}</ref> which had been widely criticized as discriminatory against minorities, mostly blacks, who were more likely to use crack than powder cocaine.<ref name=WashPost>[http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/08/02/AR2010080204360.html "The Fair Sentencing Act corrects a long-time wrong in cocaine cases"], ''[[The Washington Post]]'', August 3, 2010. Retrieved September 30, 2010.</ref> Statistics from 1998 show that there were [[Race and the War on Drugs|wide racial disparities in arrests, prosecutions, sentencing and deaths]]. African-American drug users made up for 35% of drug arrests, 55% of convictions, and 74% of people sent to prison for drug possession crimes.<ref name="celling-america-246-247">Burton-Rose (ed.), 1998: pp. 246–247</ref> Nationwide, African-Americans were sent to state prisons for drug offenses 13 times more often than other races,<ref name="hrw-race-key-findings">{{cite web|url=https://www.hrw.org/legacy/campaigns/drugs/war/key-facts.htm|title=Key Findings at a Glance|work=Racial Disparities in the War on Drugs|publisher=Human Rights Watch|accessdate=February 3, 2010}}</ref> even though they only supposedly comprised 13% of regular drug users.<ref name="celling-america-246-247" /> === Causes === Racial disparity in commission of violent crime is commonly attributed to the social status and financial means of minorities. [[Poverty]] is one factor correlated with an increase in criminal activity. The correlation between poverty and criminal activity has been shown to be independent of race, with the disproportionate number of minorities in poverty accounting for their disproportionately high levels of criminal activity.<ref>{{Cite journal|last=Ulmer|first=Jeffery T.|last2=Harris|first2=Casey T.|last3=Steffensmeier|first3=Darrell|date=2012-09-01|title=Racial and Ethnic Disparities in Structural Disadvantage and Crime: White, Black, and Hispanic Comparisons*|url=http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/j.1540-6237.2012.00868.x/abstract|journal=Social Science Quarterly|language=en|volume=93|issue=3|pages=799–819|doi=10.1111/j.1540-6237.2012.00868.x|issn=1540-6237|pmc=4097310|pmid=25035523}}</ref> Research shows that childhood exposure to violence also significantly increases the likelihood of engagement in violent behavior. When studies control for childhood exposure to violence, black and white males in the United States are equally likely to engage in violent behavior.<ref>{{Cite journal|last=Aliprantis|first=Dionissi|date=2016-09-14|title=Human capital in the inner city|url=http://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s00181-016-1160-y|journal=Empirical Economics|language=en|pages=1–45|doi=10.1007/s00181-016-1160-y|issn=0377-7332}}</ref> == See also == * [[Crime in the United States]] * [[Incarceration in the United States]] * [[Race and crime in the United States]] * [[Racial inequality in the United States|Race and inequality in the United States]] * [[Racial profiling]] * [[Racism in the United States]] * [[Hate crime]] == References == {{Reflist}} {{Race and crime}} === Bibliography === *Templer, D. I. [http://lesacreduprintemps19.files.wordpress.com/2011/08/richard-lynn-and-the-evolution-of-conscientiousness.pdf Richard Lynn and the evolution of conscientiousness]. Personality and Individual Differences (2011) [[Category:Race and crime| ]] [[Category:Race (human categorization)]] [[Category:Correlates of crime]] [[Category:Crime]]'