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Study: Nearly 50 Percent Of Black Men Report Being Arrested By Age 23

Author:     Zoe Schlanger
Source:     Talking Points Media
Publication Date:     January 8, 2014, 1:44 PM EST
 Link: Study: Nearly 50 Percent Of Black Men Report Being Arrested By Age 23
Stephan:   This is a startling and very depressing report. How can any White person understand what it is like to live in a culture where 50 per cent of the men and boys you know will, at some point, be cross-threaded with the law, and most will spend time in jail or prison, often long periods of time. This smacks of a police state not a democracy.

Black man in handcuffsA new analysis of survey data finds that nearly half of black men report an arrest by the time they turn 23, according to a study released Monday in the journal Crime & Delinquency. (emphasis added)

The study (subscription required) drew its data from the federal government’s National Longitudinal Survey of Youth conducted between 1997 and 2008. The researchers found that by age 18, 30% of black males report having been arrested, compared with 26% of Hispanic males and 22% of white males.

By age 23, 49% of black males, 44% of Hispanic males and 38% of white males report having been arrested.

These stark racial differences were far more muted among women; by age 18, 12% of white women, 11.8% of Hispanic women and 11.9% of black women report one or more arrests. By age 23, reported arrest rates were 20% for white women, 18% for Hispanic women, and 16% for black women.

Robert Brame, a professor of criminology at the University of South Carolina and the lead author on the study, noted the disruptive impact of arrests can make […]

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