CRIME BY RACE…
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| 2010. Inmates in adult facilities, by race and ethnicity. Jails, and state and federal prisons.[48] | |||
| Race, ethnicity | % of US population | % of U.S. incarcerated population |
% of racial group |
| White (non-Hispanic) | 64 | 39 | 0.45 |
| Hispanic | 16 | 19 | 0.831 |
| Black | 13 | 40 | 2.306 |
W. E. B. Du Bois, one of the pioneers in the study of race and crime in the United States.
Du Bois traced the causes of the disproportional representation of Blacks in the criminal justice system back to the improperly handled emancipation of Black slaves in general and the convict leasing program in particular. In 1901, he wrote:
There are no reliable statistics to which one can safely appeal to measure exactly the growth of crime among the emancipated slaves. About seventy per cent of all prisoners in the South are black; this, however, is in part explained by the fact that accused Negroes are still easily convicted and get long sentences, while whites still continue to escape the penalty of many crimes even among themselves. And yet allowing for all this, there can be no reasonable doubt but that there has arisen in the South since the [civil] war a class of black criminals, loafers, and ne’er-do-wells who are a menace to their fellows, both black and white.
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