Violent crime is down across the country, but rates are mixed in the Mountain West
Violent crime is down across the country, but rates are mixed in the Mountain West
- August 5, 2024
- Charis Kubrin, CPIP and social ecology, Wyoming Public Media, August 5, 2024
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Institutional racism remains an issue, said Dr. Charis Kubrin, professor of criminology at UC Irvine, explaining why Black men are disproportionately represented in crime statistics.
“FBI reports 80 percent (of those arrested) are male,” Kubrin said. “We can compare that to the overall U.S. population, which is 49 percent. If we look at race and in particular African-Americans, we see that while they comprise 52 percent of homicide offenders, that’s much higher than their representation in the population.”
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