Why do juvenile deliquents and other criminals tend to be black?
453123
what statistics are you refering to? in my city, iv'e done a study on black and white "delinquints" from the ages of 13-18. in many cases we've seen that they white delinquints got their charges dropped, or were offered PTI, (Pre trial Intervention) wherein the cases of the black delinquints were sent to the juvenile correctionall facilities. I'm nopt trying to play a race card, but the study said what we had thought all along. with pti you are excused, nothing goes on your permanent record. With a juvenile facility, it is on your record, and you become a "statistic". I would like to think that you are not being anything but curious with asking this type of question over the internet. hope that this gives you a broader outlook on what the variables are when tallying for statistics. later.
890024
because Black is a dominate gene.
741406
The thing is that black people started the hip hop/urban culture you are talking about, so that's why people say they act black.  The term I hear a lot is "wigger", that term has been around for years and years.  I know it sounds offensive to some, I am just stating the term and I don't mean anything derogatory by it.
762710
Probably because alot of them are in prison and the rest grew up and realized how stupid they were acting. I'm not a racist but at least the KKK had organization to it. The skinheads would just beat people up in the middle of the street with a hundred eye witnesses. Just stupid!
436863
First of all they are children and not adults. Juveniles think different than adults. Usually they are not fully aware of the consequences of their actions. By no means does that excuse their behavior, and of course their should be punishment. But the punishment should fit the crime.  Violent offenses should be treated different than non-violent offense. Juveniles respond differently to corrections than adults. I am not sure what type of offense you are talking about.  Because the depends greatly on the way they should be treated in the criminal justice system.  There are so many varying factors in crime. Especially crime committed by minors. What one must really think about is the punishment going to make a smarter criminal? Everyone knows that prison doesn't fix crime. It usually makes better criminals.
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The MEDIA.  \n\nWhen you look at the news on television, local crime reports are full of images of Black men wanted for some crime, or Black men captured for some crime.  (Whereas they don't too much show the white males that commit and are arrested for crimes).  Fear sells, and seeing a Black man arrested makes some people think they can sleep easily at night.  Especially when historically, the stereotype embedded in our brains is that Black people are lazy, untrustworthy, and unintelligent.\n\nDo your own research. Go into a local store and watch how the sales person watches the Black person that comes in, and not so much the white person.  Look at the news articles with mugshots of some Black person looking "sinister".  \n\nRacism is an integral part of this society.  Regardless of how so-called "enlightened" we supposedly have become.  As long as a white person can commit a crime and blame a Black man for it, as long as music executives grow rich off of some young Black man or woman singing about committing some crime to get rich (and putting out a music video of it) all the while sneering for the camera, that image will remain.\n\nLM
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When people think of black people, they think about the majority of blacks they have seen in person or in the media: they are ghetto, loud, rude, use slang, act hard, etc.\n\nThese are the images that are out there in the mainstream. These are the people that some see when they go to the mall or to the movies. They see blacks being loud and talking on the cell while people are trying to watch the movie. They see blacks speaking heavy ghetto slang and wearing clothing that hangs below their butts.\n\nWhen they see a black who does not fit that stereotype, they see that as an except and not as the norm. They see that as a black, trying not to be "black". They have a hard time understanding that there are different classes and types of blacks and that being black does not mean just acting one type of way. They just see someone not following the norm or trying to be "white".
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Don't know if  that stat is true, but if your questions is strictly a probability study I would say just based on Incarceration rate and the fact that they make up 15% of the population and reflect a much larger percentage than that as to the total # of people incarcerated. I would say that the color of the skin does not make them more likely to be criminals but the environment that some are brought up in. 70% out of wed-lock child birth is a factor..the inner cities which are predominately African American is a factor..\nto solve the problem you need to be honest about it..and the African American community should turn to pro-active leaders like Bill Cosby and Larry Elder who want to empower and throw "leaders like Jessie Jackson to the curb who has no solution just the victim card and blame White American..
949729
Being "goth" makes their anger and bitterness the "cool" thing to do.\n\nPlus black is actually slimming.
230587
The term "Black Irish" is sometimes used in the United States to refer to Irish people possessing dark skin and hair, purportedly due to Iberian ancestry. Numerous popular theories have been devised to explain the provenance and historical background of the "Black Irish."\n\nThe term is used differently in different places.
149585
Because they're Egyptians (or Egyptian-American if they become naturalized).  Blacks are called African-Americans because they don't know from which african culture their ancestors were forcibly removed, so froma social standpoint, they're basically orphans.  Du Bois said the same thing (sort of).
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Unlike most, who will give the standard politically correct answer you probably expect, I will tell you the hard truth.\n\nStereotypes and generalizations are based primarily on group traits, based on years and perhaps centuries, of common reactions to different situations.  In short, there ARE traits exhibited by different ethnic and racial groups that are typical to that group.  I am not talking about skin color but rather common traits found in slang speech, clothing choices, even vehicle choices.  It is based on cultural values and experience that goes to the root of that particular race or ethnic group and has been cultivated over thousands of years.  Thats why you will find Jews heavily in finance, Germans tending towards advanced engineering, the Italians having a sharp sense of style, etc.
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see the jew's dont like black coz, they know that black's was really god's chosen. and also studies have shown that jew's and the blacks have the same dna almost.. in a way the have a little black in them..
997104
Yes it is not about race. Black cops do stop black criminals. It is about law.\n And some of the Minutemen are Mexicans-it is about law not race.
1090575
ppl around this area think black people are all rappers that wear their pants down and their boxers hanging out, and that they dont have a job. i happen to be friends with them and they are nothing like that. i also hear things about hispanics in our area. people think all hispanics are lowdown, dirty, poor people that live 20-30 people in a house. well, i hate this, because it is not true. they arent all illegal, and most of them work harder than american people!!
825682
Because they commit more crimes. A better question would be, why do minorities commit more crimes? The answers to that question are complex.
930722
They are usually socialized to become criminals.