The Gale Encyclopedia of Science. Factor - Kuru by K. Lee Lerner, Brenda Wilmoth Lerner

By K. Lee Lerner, Brenda Wilmoth Lerner

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Recent studies have challenged each of these views. African Americans as Criminals African Americans are disproportionately represented in the criminal justice system. 3% according to the 2000 census). Their percentage of arrests, convictions, and persons under state and federal correctional supervision exceeds their representation in the general population. 7%. 1%. S. population. Whites had only 773 men in prison per 100,000 White males and Hispanics had 1,747 men in prison per 100,000 Hispanic males.

Celia (1855), Dred Scott v. Sanford (1858), and the Plessy v. Ferguson (1896) decisions. The disproportionate presence 5 of African Americans in the criminal justice system is partially attributable to the racial legacy in the legal system. There are some, however, who believe that the correlation between African Americans and crime is the result not of a “White conspiracy” or racist criminal justice system, but of the socioeconomic condition and/or cultural behavior of African Americans. Other academics and policy analysts simply conclude that African Americans appear in crime statistics more often than others because they commit more of the crimes that are documented.

Negro criminality in the South. Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Sciences, 49, 74–80. A deter him from further political activism, as he became one of the founding members of the Philadelphia chapter of the Black Panther Party, an African American organization founded with the goals of promoting civil rights and self-defense, in 1968. He furthered his work with the Black Panther Party in 1970, working at the Black Panther newspaper in Oakland, California, and returning to Philadelphia a short time later.

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