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Homicide Among Black Americans
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16 pages in length. Stereotypical, knee-jerk public opinions often accuse black Americans of being perpetrators in more homicides than white offenders. While statistics back up this claim to some extent, what is not as readily realized is that black Americans also represent the highest number of homicide victims between the two races. In the year 2000, a population of 6.1% white males between the ages of fourteen and twenty-four reflected a homicide victim rate of 10.0% and an offender rate of 17.3%, while a 1.1% black population of the same age group produced 14.8% victims and 27.4% offenders (FBI, 2002). There are a number of variables that comprise the reasons why young, black Americans are more vulnerable to homicide death than any other populations, including alcohol, firearm accessibility, drugs, poverty, unemployment, racial discrimination, cultural beliefs, gender oppression, as well as a growing concern over popular culture's preoccupation with violence stemming from "television and movie violence and the role it plays in initiating the idea that problems are solved through violence. For example, by age 16, an average child has witnessed approximately 16,000 murders on the television screen" (OSDH, 2003). Bibliography lists 21 sources.
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