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I have added the Totally Disputed tag, because
I will go point-by-point to illistrate why this is so.
The statistics referenced are simply counts of current prisoners. Yes, there are a disproportinate number of blacks in US prisons. This dosn't, however, show that blacks are more likely to commit violent crime. Consider the following:
There is no dispute. All three are factors. It is well known that poverty drives people to crime. There are many american sub-cultures devoted to illegal activities (e.g., drug use). Lastly, certain genes have been identified which are purported to predispose one to violence. The critical thing, though, is that these three factors apply to whites, Asians, and all other races. Poverty is a factor in both white and black crime. So is culture. And these "criminal genes" are not unique to any race.
Ahh, the Columbine excuse -- only in that case it was white boys and gothic metal. Psychologists, try as they may, have yet to actually demonstrate a connection between violent music and violent behavior. Psychology aside, this is total bullshit. There was a huge "black crime" scare in the 1930s and 40s -- well before the era of gangsta rap.
See the first point.
For a very thorough covering of this issue, see racial profiling. BTW, Jared Taylor, from what I am reading, can be safely branded a bigot even in polite conversation.
The links are to ultra-right wing sites, so they don't even pretend to represent a neutral POV. The pages are basically propaganda, so they hardly qualify as being factual (i.e a reference). Though I havn't read the print reference, I suspect it to be of the same ilk. Personally, this article needs either serious attention, or to be deleted. I think most of the issues mentioned here are better covered in other articles.
- Casito⇝ Talk 06:30, 26 Jun 2005 (UTC)
Arabs have been shown to have lower crime rates than whites in the USA and Canada (Globe and Mail piece from late 1990s). So their tendency for increased crime is not noted everywhere. Non-muslim arabs, in particular, are very noted for low crime rates and high social success...suggesting that culture has much to do with criminality, and not only race. In all probability, there probably is innate differences in crime rates based on race, but in the short term, particularly for new immigrants and their level of assimilation, a cultural aspect to it as well. Among muslims, ismailis, ahmedis, and alawites have virtually neglible crime rates...despite similar racial origins to other muslims.
"It is well known that poverty drives people to crime." How about a citation to authority for that statement? If it is so "well known," it should not be hard to find a scholarly citation. The statement implies that poverty necessarily leads to crime. Thus, it is an insult to the persons of lesser means who work honestly to improve themselves and do not steal from others.
Few date rapes are violent. Date Rape which is primarily a white crime is rarely reported. Only 39% of rapes and sexual assaults were reported to law enforcement officials. For male rape, less than 10% are believed to be reported. If one were to study this further they may find that the numbers are far higher. Most underage children are unlikely to tell their parents that they have been raped especially after sneaking out or engaging in drinking.
Colleges only in the last 5 years have become aggresive about asking for women to step forward and tell their story.
Youth Drug use is almost 3 times as high for young whites than any minority group, however, prosecution is nonexistent.
Where are those stats from? 3x higher for young whites than any minority group? And if date rape is rarely reported, how is it known it's primarily a white crime? If only 39% of rapes were reported, how the heck could anybody know the number 39%?-- Edward Wakelin 20:33, 11 August 2005 (UTC)
[ [2]] Someone has researched it. Not me. I'll find more sources later.
The sourcing on that doesn't seem too amazing... And it still doesn't explain how 10-39% of rapes are reported to the cops. And I'm still interested in where the 3x drug use comes from.-- Edward Wakelin 04:35, 17 August 2005 (UTC)
As far as people with strong racial views go, Jared Taylor is pretty watery. He's the model of the respectable-white-nationalist. White supremacists, neo-Nazis, etc tend to HATE him.
Still, he shouldn't be the only source in the article. Remember, though, that if a counterpart for him is gonna be searched out, it's not gonna be some way-out-there black activist... That would be the counterpart of, I dunno, Alex Linder or somebody. -- Edward Wakelin 20:57, 11 August 2005 (UTC)
I have moved the page from "Race and Crime" to "Race and incarceration in the United States". Since the page is built around incarceration statistics, this seems more fitting. Secondly, these statistics are only really relevent in the US, so that was added to the title. Maybe once someone finds hard sources other than incarceration statistics (ideally a source for Jared Taylor's victim surveys, or similar), and information relevent to other countries ( Brazil would be a really good example) the page can be returned to its origional name. Until then, the current name is probably the best place for it to avoid future disputes.⇝ Casito⇝ Talk 15:44, 14 August 2005 (UTC)
Muslim isn't a race, it's a religion, no?
Maybe an article about religion and crime would be warranted.
It is not "well known" that poverty causes crime. Rather, it is an oft repeated assumption. The truth is that crime causes poverty. The first step in building a strong family or a successful society is to imbue high morals. (lsm)
[If you guys didn't like what the article said, why didn't you edit it? I included two paragraphs about the ridiculousness of connecting race to crime.] TheDogon
Peace out.
If this matter would be studied in places where the only people effecting in a community would be representatives of only one of a so called "race" and fixed laws, as what a crime is, applied independently to these communities, then and only then might the study reveal something about the subject, which is 'race and crime', not 'current studies of criminality in historically generated "mixed race" populations', which would be more appropriate a subject to this.
Yes you can look at his views in different ways but facts are facts and without defending him lets look at some problems With your own eyes, take a running total and keep track every time a negitive is seen through your eyes such as tv news actual experence etc Note the race . Have you worked in a prison have you seen or understand the inmates. Have you been to harlem have you been to a trailor trash developement. Can you see the different way the people act and choose to act.If you can't your in denile.Bottom line you react and and respond to your environment which you can take a perfect white young man an put him in a prison for no reason and he will relize he will need to fight to survive to keep is morals alive and change his ways to blend in with the crowd so he will be excepted. But take this to the bank Bureau of Justice Statistics Homicide trends in the U.S.: (Trends by race www.ojp.usdoj.gov/bjs/homicide/race.htm )These are facts and only done in black vs white putting mexican asian indian etc all together to represent white race and blacks are all their own. Still the numbers are unreal to depute. People that defend the numbers as being racial then where are their facts, what have you found out ,anyone can argue a fact lets see what you find out.30 whites caught for a crime 30 blacks caught on the same crime does that make it equal if your answer is yes then you are in denile since the percentage of whites in the US over doubles the black race in the US.
M.Champ
Again, I edited the page. If racist freaks want to come back and put back in racist garbage. We can play this little game for as long as it takes. Not many know about this particular entry. I can alert as many folks as I need to. If you believe that "race" or genetics causes a person to commit crime, you are free to believe in the mythology all you want. But in the real world, we all know that skin color has little to do with it. African immigrants, Caribbeans, and other folks you would call "Black" have little to do with African-American Culture. Any attempt to claim these groups share negative behaviors because of some unknown genetic equation is nothing but fruitcake racism at it's best.
Again stats are stats. There are stats on African/Caribbean immigrants, in fact, African immigrants are one of the most successful immigrant groupings, by even your crazed racist standards.
Also, I might add, violent crime committed by "Blacks" accounts for less than 2% of crime overall. The issue at hand is the devastating War on Drugs. . .which has turned into War on "Blacks".
The Dogon
In fact, it is comparable to that of other immigrant groupings all of whom have lower rates of crime than "Blacks" or "Whites" born in America.
Sorry, totally false, and I am going to remove it. Please take your anti-White hate elsewhere.
Again, a war against insane crazed racism isn't a war against "Whites". Racism doesn't just do non-"Whites" an injustice. It does everyone an injustice. You guys from stormfront.org can keep lying at this website. It doesn't matter. There are far more non-racists than there are racists.
Nothing in your racist rhetoric address plain simple truth. Different groups of "Blacks" have different rates of crime. Just because insane "White" racists think there is some common thread based on people's skin color does not make it true. Science must be used to prove this commonality. Not crazed racist mythology.
I don't know where you people come from or why it's so important for you to prove that white-skinned people are better than black-skinned people. But I would advise you to at least try to speak common sense. It is you. . .not me who is trying to prove one group is better than another. And we all know what Webster's dictionary defines as being racist.
"a belief that race is the primary determinant of human traits and capacities and that racial differences produce an inherent superiority of a particular race"
This article is a whole lot of white propaganda nonsence. Its very very unreliable and untrue. No proper evidence to back it up. The people who write these articles are just some silly american whites who consider themselves more highly because of their skin.
The article is unreliable and racist.
The same old boring articles about whites who try to express themselves as superior by making themselves intelligent,ethically developed, less curropt and richer.
Have you finished? Your insecurities have been put on show for everyone to see.
The following link might address the point raised about greater incarceration rates for Blacks.
http://www.ssc.wisc.edu/~oliver/RACIAL/Reports/meparticledraft3.pdf
It appears that higher black crime in the US is attributable to an amalgam of poverty, segregation and poorer schooling ( ingredients for a vicious cycle)combined with harsher treatment for black offenders.
For example, the article notes that drug use is about the same for blacks and whites and lower than whites for hispanics but a greater percentage of blacks and hispanics wind up in prison. Also the incarceration rates for blacks in Hawaii is much lower than other states in the US relative to whites.....Hmmm
For some reason almost no one on this talk page signs their stuff. There are alot of good arguments here and then there are a lot of people just blowing off some of their steam. That's fine. The thing is, if you want folks to listen to you put these: ~ ~ ~ ~ (without the spaces) after your rants. You will be rewarded with one of these >>>> BDSIII 20:25, 17 June 2006 (UTC)
The title of the article pushes a POV that criminal convictions by race equates to crimes by race. A more NPOV title would be Race and criminal convictions, which would acknowledge that not all guilty people are convicted of crimes and some people who have been convicted of crimes are innocent. -- Wiley 16:06, 1 September 2006 (UTC)
Whenver right-wingers bring the subject up on various message boards, I've always looked up the data at the Department of Justice or FBI websites to confirm or contrast their "facts." While their data is usually skewed, and often taken out of context, it was dishearting for me to find there was a basis in fact. While it dawned on me as well that blacks are unfairly treated by our criminal system, it's relevant to point out that the DOJ also measures the percieved race of people who are committing crimes themselves, and not necessarily just those who have been prosecuted.
It's been a while since I've done any looking, and the DOJ files are numerous and hard to sift through, but if I remember correctly, blacks commit a disproportionate number of homicides for their racial subset. They also commit a greater perentage of other violent crimes for their subset than whites, though not a greater number of violent crimes. The victims of these violent crimes are something like 8 out of 9 times also black.
Perhaps I can find the time to find those specific DOJ or FBI statistics. It's always difficult to search for them, because they are government web pages, which aren't designed nor are the reports compiled to make sense of social and political issues. DEL 66.57.225.77 23:21, 10 September 2006 (UTC)
This article seems to be discussing the relationship between race and crime as a whole, not just criminal convictions. For example, this article could discuss racial profiling and other crime-related measures that don't necessary have anything to do with the way crimes are prosecuted (but have to do with crime in general). I think it's important to make the title of articles as broad as possible, so I think the current title is better than "Race and criminal convictions". Then if there's too much information having to do with criminal convictions, we can go ahead and create a subarticle titled Race and criminal convictions. Your thoughts on this? Sofeil 23:20, 29 October 2006 (UTC)
Governments don't know who committed crimes; they only know who was prosecuted and, of those, who was convicted. Since all criminal justice systems are imperfect (some people who are innocent are convicted, and some who are guilty are not), no one truly knows what the rates of crime are. Therefore the title, as well as the very first sentence in the article (An observed correlation between race and crime has been noted...), pushes a POV. A more NPOV first sentence would be Differences in the rates of criminal prosecutions and convictions by race have been noted... and a more NPOV title would be Criminal prosecutions by race -- Wiley 04:17, 1 November 2006 (UTC)
I have removed the part about the Lebanese, Vietnamese, etc in the Australia section because this was not sourced and it seems completely unfair that this should be included because we do not know if it is true or not. 211.30.100.236 07:51, 2 October 2006 (UTC)
I admit it, I added all of the tags - and I feel as if I should add more! There are more holes in this article than in a kilogram of swiss cheese. There is sooooooo much subjectivity, the raw data for the figures is something that should be made available to readers and wikipedians. There are parts of the article that mention what seem to be arbitrary pieces of information without sufficient context and backup.
I shall attempt to address *some* of the issues that I have seen in the wikipedia article in an order that reflects Wikipedia:Template_messages.
However, I do not feel that each and every one of the tags that I have added requires a sentence of information in order to justify its addition. In many cases, the addition of the tags and my motivations for adding them would be obvious to any objective observer.
MrASingh 00:31, 17 March 2007 (UTC)
If there are concerns with the content of an article, there are many appropriate ways to address those concerns, including editing the article, nominating it for deletion, approaching various Wikiprojects for help, and so forth. Making any article entirely unreadable by adding over 80 banners to it is entirely unacceptable. It is essentially vandalism. I have removed over 80 banners from the article and have left 6 of the most appropriate banners prominently at the top. This is entirely adequate to inform viewers of the dispute surrounding the content. Please use appropriate avenues to address content disputes. Please do not vandalize Wikipedia. Joie de Vivre 00:48, 18 March 2007 (UTC)
Have a look at my user talk page to see my response to the upset induced by the use of the numerous banners. Essentially, it would be necessary to note that the actual use of 80 tags on the page should not automatically classify the edit as vandalism *if* there is some sound reason for editing subsections of the article when it is felt that merely informing the reader of an inadequacy within the whole of the article is not enough (ie: when particular sections of the article warrant criticism above the whole of the article, for example).
Nevertheless, for such a *short* and *amateur* article, perhaps 80 tags was slightly over the top (*slightly*).
MrASingh 20:05, 19 March 2007 (UTC)
OK. Let's go through a *tag* by *tag* discussion. There are some tags that you deemed were not {{cleanup|March 2007}} {{cleanup-rewrite}} {{story}} {{cleanup-restructure}} {{Disputed}} {{Unencyclopedic}} {{fiction}} {{context}} {{Expand}} {{RRevised}} {{Expert}} {{Expert-verify|March 2007}} {{misleading}} {{POV}} {{totally-disputed}} {{totally-disputed-section}} {{tooshort}} {{introrewrite}} MrASingh 20:05, 19 March 2007 (UTC)
You have not made any attempt to justify your designation of the term vandalism, and, as such, it can only be assumed to be a totally subjective (and, may I state - as is in tune with this article - very PREJUDICED). > "At this time, I am not interested to participate in a tag-by-tag discussion. "
Well, your unwillingness to participate in a *reasonable* discussion of the tags is perhaps your general attitude towards truth and wikipedia in general (all the more reason for you to not participate in it!). The discussion obviously need not be tag by tag (though it should address several of the issues - on an issue by issue basis, say).
> gross overkill I did apologise for the number of tags. However, it would not be "gross overkill". 80 tags are 80 tages. They do not obsfuscate the content of the article in any fundamental way (unless you are someone with reading difficulties and disabilities).
> The concerns about article content are made very clear by the 6 remaining tags. I am not interested in addressing those concerns at this time.
It seems that most things do not concern you with this article - so why bother attempting to edit any of it? There are more than a mere 6 issues with these tags. Get used to that fact. If you don't want to discuss, fine, I shall continue to justify my position. And, being the only one justifying it, I shall then edit the article accordingly.
Have a nice day uber : ) MrASingh 13:51, 20 March 2007 (UTC)
The following comment, by MrASingh, was placed on my talk page. I am moving it here because it is about this article. Joie de Vivre 14:10, 20 March 2007 (UTC)
I basically re-state what was stated on Joie de Vivre. I believe that the accusation of having 'vandalised' Joie de Vivre is something that is not best placed here as this related to a issue that is not directly related to this article in a sense (vandalism of the article not being the same and vandalism of the user page). Nevertheless, due to Joie de Vivre's insistence, I am obliged to present the below as he wishes it to be presented :
"It is clear to me that you have your own interpretations of the term vandalism. I have quoted the term before. Clearly, I felt that discussing such a complex issue required a high degree of analysis - and what better way to do this than to bring up the issues of each tag individually?
Again, it does appears that you have your own definitions of vandalism that are *self-serving* in the extreme (probably a reflection of the extreme position of the race and crime article). The tags were placed on the article in a way that would bring the reader to the attention of the various issues of the article edits. There will be more discussion of this in future, I'm sure.
Nevertheless, you are wrong to state that I vandalised your user page. I did not. I merely presented the self-same articles on the page that page you have *specifically designated as being the page upon which messages of that nature are left*. Of course, they took up a considerable amount of space - but no more than would be done on the article itself! If you do not like the idea of lengthy arguments being directed or left on your message or talk page - perhaps you should specify a length for those arguments that might tax your intellect so greatly?
MrASingh 21:35, 20 March 2007 (UTC)"
I don't know why people are hating on this page... I am just posting facts. It's not my fault blacks commit 52% of the homicides in the USA, now is it? McDonaldsGuy 21:59, 9 April 2007 (UTC)
The issue of poverty is not addressed in this article. Poverty cycle and Criminology articles contain information that could be worked into this article. 22:36, 9 April 2007 (UTC)
This article made lots of unfounded and very vague assertions. You can't just restaure content without giving more details. It means nothing to say "88% of criminals are Black" if you don't say how these statistics were made. See crime statistics, dark figure of crime, etc. Wikipedia is not a soapbox: if you want to have an article on "Race & crime", do it accordingly to encyclopedical standards. Tazmaniacs 17:19, 10 April 2007 (UTC)
Reverted back to original as the new one has been horribly stripped down and irrelevant to the observed phenomena. The charts are necessary for an empirical analysis. Mogg flunkie 03:40, 17 April 2007 (UTC)
Reverted page back to the previous versions with charts. Note to whoever is stripping down this page, Wikipedia is not your soapbox for you censor information which does not agree with you.
Statistics are a basis for empirical analysis. Attempts to censor them undermines the scientific process and negates the point in having a truthful encyclopedia.
Censorship should be a thing for totalitarian governments, not knowledge-seeking individuals interested in sociological phenomenon and it's statistical correlations.
Please edit reasonably. Thank you Mogg flunkie 23:55, 19 April 2007 (UTC)
Vandalism was perpetrated by Tazmaniacs, I have reverted back to the original form. Please stop being a POV-warrior and edit by consensus!
Thank You Mogg flunkie 05:57, 20 April 2007 (UTC)
Then make changes to the original source article. It's unfair to delete many hours of research just so you few who disagree with the subject can arbitrarily censor it. I have reverted your vandalism and unilateral, uncompromising POV Tazmaniac.
Thank You Mogg flunkie 23:21, 20 April 2007 (UTC)
Yukichigai is on the right track. This article needs to be narrowly defined, specifically limited to reliable statistics related to race and crime in the United States and around the world. This means deleting everything except statistics. Let the postulated causes of the observed statistical facts be discussed in a separate article. Specific thoughts. Only use statistics which refer to specific racial groups. Do not use "non-white" or "other" or even "Hispanic". There are crime victimization statistics collected in the US. Use them, as they tend to refute the claim that arrest statistics are biased. If you can find good statistics for Asian or Oriental crime rates, use them. Also, the article would be improved by adding crime statistics for non-white countries, such as Japan, and predominantly black countries if there are any with reliable statistics. 74.136.217.215 00:39, 13 August 2007 (UTC)
There seems to be some dispute in regard to this article especially its content. Perhaps both perspectives could be incorporated if the article was structured as followed.
1) Introduction
2) Statistics
3) Explanations
.Just a suggestion Romper 00:32, 27 April 2007 (UTC)
First of all, let us get this straight: this page is about RACE and CRIME. Empirically, there is a statistical correlation. Whether you like it or not does not matter- it is a statistical fact. Therefore, the purpose of this page is bring in different theories and explanations of why such an anomaly exists. What Tazmaniacs and Yukichigai are doing is censoring this statistical fact and totally going off-topic and deviating from the subject; which is race and crime.
This is basically an indirect way of asserting their POV's as their censoring the truth furthers their POV agendas. Mogg flunkie 00:28, 2 May 2007 (UTC)
As a bold experiment I've decided to redirect this article directly to the merge candidate, Anthropological criminology. This article seems to have severe problems that do not afflict that one, which has such close affinities to the subject of this one that they can be considered to cover the same subject (although that one is broader in scope). Please feel free to revert this if it seems unrealistic, but I would like to sugges that it might be better to work on improving that one than to persevere with this one. -- Tony Sidaway 07:40, 2 May 2007 (UTC)
If you are going to merge this article, please discuss it before you do so. The merge in my opinion was an awful idea; I mean Anthropological Criminology?!!!! That has almost no relation to the original article. I favor reverting it back. That being said, this article is far from being good and is a work in progress. I will be researching and adding statistics from the US and other countries in regards to crime and race and I suggest to others that this be the primary goal for now and we can discuss further additions as the article comes along. Colemangracie 20:50, 3 May 2007 (UTC)
I put back in the statistics, but I found a lot of selective referencing which made it seem POV. I have cleaned it up a lot to make it more evernly dispersed. I will be researching those selected references further to draw more relevant statistics that cover more racial groups and not just Whites and Blacks. Colemangracie 20:23, 4 May 2007 (UTC)
I strongly disagree with merging the race and crime section here. Anthropological criminology is an obsolete scientific theory used to explain the facts mentioned in race and crime. Saying they should be merged is like saying that carbon dioxide should be merged with Phlogiston theory. Paladinwannabe2 15:40, 19 June 2007 (UTC)
I found a duplicate references section at the bottom of the article. Dunno how it managed to stay there so long without anybody noticing. Anyway, I've removed the section but I thought I'd post the stuff that was in there, should it prove to be useful later:
-- Y| yukichigai ( ramble argue check) 07:15, 13 June 2007 (UTC)
why cherry pick countries that have minority backgrounds. what about all the homogeneous countries, who commits the crimes. Muntuwandi 01:12, 16 June 2007 (UTC)
Since this is a fairly controversial topic (duh) the policies and guidelines of Wikipedia apply very strictly to this article. This includes Wikipedia's policy on Original Research. Allow me to explain further...
I've noticed that a number of people have accidentally included Original Research in the article while in the process of adding statistics. It's subtle and I doubt intentional, but nonetheless it's there. Specifically, I've noticed that editors will add statistical information concerning race-based crime from one source, (say, stats on rape) and then follow it up with overall stats from a different source for comparison. (say, stats on overall ethnic population, or stats on all crime in a country) This is explicitly defined by policy as Original Research. It's sort of counter-intuitive to think that there's a problem with providing reference points by which to allow readers to judge statistics, but it is policy and it's there for a reason. If the "general" statistic (e.g. ethnic population) and the "specific" statistic (e.g. ethnic crime) come from the same source it's not a problem since we aren't drawing or implying any conclusions that someone (the source) hasn't already, but if those two come from different sources it's theoretically possible that we might have picked, say, a "general" statistic that makes the "specific" statistic look really really bad. (I'm not saying that's why people have done this, I'm just saying that's what policy is trying to prevent)
In short, be very careful about adding statistics. Don't try to piece together a point using multiple sources; instead, try to find single sources that give you all the reference information you need for a given point. Government publications are usually excellent at that sort of thing, since bureaucrats have a fetish for excessive statistics. :P -- Y| yukichigai ( ramble argue check) 10:07, 1 July 2007 (UTC)
I question the reference for this section. Firstly, the study is not accessible for wikipedians. Secondly, even if the citation were valid in the sense that the study were of a kind that passes academic tests that would allow it to be deemed a quality citation (bearing in mind that, as the newspaper link for the study does not even mention the study title, this cannot be done), it does not provide an overall contextual overview for the subject matter in Norway.
In short the section on Norway cites a controversial citation and that probably requires that the Norway section should be removed.
Finally, referring to WP:Scientific citation guidelines (which, I think, is meant to provide guidelines for all citations within Wikipedia), there is the issue that , according ti WP:What is a reliable source, the following statement holds :
"Reliable sources are authors or publications regarded as trustworthy or authoritative in relation to the subject at hand. Reliable publications are those with an established structure for fact-checking and editorial oversight."
I do not believe that, for this subject matter, the Newspaper itself should be cited. The *study* probably should be cited (bearing in mind, of course, that the Newspaper does not *cite* the study by title or other details). Essentially, there is a problem of reliability that concerns citing a source indirectly when that the indirect reference does not make any explicity mention of the title of the source (as would be necessary for a wikipedian). So, I'm removing the citation.
ConcernedScientist 19:33, 3 July 2007 (UTC)
Since it's somehow not clear, let me explain this, again: this article is about a supposed link between Race and Crime. It is not about inter-racial relations, inter-racial crime, or "race wars". Using limited subsets of crime statistics that only focus on "Black on White" crime (or, even worse, further limited statistics, e.g. "Black man on White woman rape") is a form of cherry picking.
This article is not about any one race, and is espeically not about any one race compared to any one other race. Comparing "Blacks and Whites" in this article violates WP:NPOV; just because you happen to find some Commons images that do so doesn't give you license to POV-push.
This article doesn't use any statistics unless you can link to the study directly. Just because you find an article that summarizes one or two points of some study released doesn't give you license to use those points; you need to also find a way to link to the study directly. This is a WP:V issue, which means editors (myself included) have carte blanche to remove offending material.
Hope that clears some stuff up. -- Y|yukichigai ( ramble argue check) 00:45, 19 August 2007 (UTC)
I haven't been on this page for a while, but it seem you're trying to impose your own POV onto this article, what with your constant editing. I see no problems with the graphs that shows the racial makeup of perpetrators. Those graphs are from the United States Department of Justice! It's a non-biased source if there is one.
No matter how much you try to censor the facts, there's something wrong with certain racial & ethnic groups in the U.S. Mogg flunkie 01:48, 22 August 2007 (UTC)
It's about the interplay between race and crime. I don't see why this material was removed at all. futurebird 16:49, 1 October 2007 (UTC)
Judging from the history of the article, there has been a lot of improvement. Good work. Just a couple of issues:
Pseudoscience Cartwright's interesting but Francis Galton is a much better example. His work was used for years in mainstream academia and society before it was debunked.
Nature v. Nurture 1st, I think scientific racism is a better name, since everything suggesting nature has been discredited as SR. 2nd, it seems as if this and the Pseudoscience section can be merged. 3rd, the article states "However, some recent works of sociobiology, which aims at explaining behaviour by biological factors, have provided for renewed interest in some circles about the relations between an ethnic group and criminality rate." There are specifc debunkers but no mention of the work itself. Isn't this "recent works of sociobiologists" actually just Rushton (a la The Pioneer Fund and scholarly misconduct)? I'm not an expert on this but I haven't actually heard of much legitimate work positing a causal relationship. Regardless, examples of the work should be named. Even if it's only Rushton, it should be mentioned specifically.
Judicial Racism should be expanded to it's own section or have accompanying sections with each nation's statistics. The artcile should also have a sseparate section on racial profiling.
Statistics Only the data for the US & Britian is contextualized in any way. The rest of the statistics should either be accompanied by culture specific commentary relating to race and given statistics or removed. As they stand now, they seem kind of OR-y.
I'll try to rewrite the intro. Phyesalis ( talk) 21:05, 17 November 2007 (UTC)
This article is not enought acurate. This was remowed: " However, most of serial killers and school shooters are ethnicaly whites or at leaser extend orientals not the blacks, who usaly are portraied as being criminals. " But this clearly is right: In USA and Europa most of accoused in corruption are whites. Most economical crime is done by whites, or at least by non black. Most racism (which definetely are crime) is alsou done by whites;)
Just a few comments on maybe improving the article - This article tells the rates of arrest between whites/Hispanics/blacks, noting that whites were on average most likely to be arrested. But the section mentions nothing about *why* the white people were pulled over. Was it because they were speeding, driving badly, in vehicles that weren't street legal? Compared with pulling over minorities solely because of their complexion. Without any info about sample bias, the section tries to suggest that the crime rate for minorities is higher. This is biased IMO. Another thing, about the discrepancy in sentencing between whites/blacks in the USA for the same crime, the section mentions nothing about the fact that blacks tend to much more likely have (large) criminal records. The way the judicial system in the USA is set up is to give much harsher punishments (much more likely to be incarcerated, especially with three strikes laws and whatnot) to repeat offenders. So it's biased to use conviction discrepancy without accounting for inherent bias in the comparisons. Peoplesunionpro ( talk) 22:27, 28 November 2007 (UTC)
This article is skewed beyond belief. The fact that much of the data come from the racist and anti-immigrant website VDARE alone is enough to call the neutrality of any of these "facts" into question.
I believe that this article is NPOV because the majority of it is about "Blacks" in the United States. 220.237.30.150
It can't really be said that the article isn't neutral. What it says is based on fact. It probably would hurt to expand it a bit though. Maybe add some more statistics on crimes commited by whites, asians, latinos, etc.
Further, the first sentence claims a global correlation, but only gives statistics for one small part of the globe (the US), a place where it's not clear non-whites systematically get treated fairly. Second, the piece talks about statistics for incarceration rates, not for crime per se. If there is any correlation between race and something in the US, it's between race and incarceration rates. The entire article stinks of bias.
This article needs more research (of the library kind, not of the original kind), not necessarily an NPOV tag. Anything this short is bound to be biased in the content sense, rather than the language sense. -- Rikurzhen 22:15, 27 September 2005 (UTC)
I think the discussion on this page shows who the real bigots are. The article as it stands now is NPOV in my eyes. The fact is, you self proclaimed "anti-racists" will denounce racial traits even if it was to be undeniably proved, due to your unwavering belief in the social contruct that all races are equal. Just because ethics say we should treat everyone as equals regardless of race, does not mean we are biologically the same, or that one race can't be more predisposed towards a life of crime than another. Please, seperate statistical facts, ethics and biology. Cold, hard facts has shown that races such as arabs and blacks will have a higher crime rate than white people in western countries, while eastern Asians will generally have a lower crime rate than whites in western countries. Asians aren't necessarily treated better than blacks or arabs in their new countries, and this is a good indicator that either race or culture is the basis for the higher crime rate, rather than racism or poverty.
Not only does the article focus on American blacks without even bothering to make that distinction on the page, the POV is evident in capitalization of race terms. There is no discussion of any correlations for other races beyond their race — for example, the line about Canada’s First Nations incarceration rates ignores that Canadian natives were not allowed to attend public schools until 1967 and the still-expanding understanding of the abuses at residential schools.
The correlations by race to crime are worth discussing, but with a full view of all the issues. Fleshing out the information and correcting errors is worthwhile here. Skyhawk0 22:21, 10 March 2007 (UTC)
I'm just passing through, doing NPOV tag cleanup. This is a controversial subject, and seems to me quite unbiased - perhaps a bit incomplete. I'm not going to touch the tag myself, but I would suggest that you seem to have a pretty good consensus among yourselves. I would suggest that all read the NPOV guidelines, which state that an article must state all views, controversial or not. I believe this article does that in an incomplete way, and further writing in the same vein would likely improve it, and assuage those who feel it is biased. Again, I won't touch the tag, just trying to mediate a bit.. Jjdon ( talk) 23:03, 24 April 2008 (UTC)
A source about the crime rate of Gypsies in former Czechoslovakia: http://www.epolis.cz/download/pdf/materials_31_1.pdf PAGE 8: Overall Romany criminality was five times higher in 1984 than the rest of the population (in the CR?, CSSR?). In the long term it rises and starts in the younger age groups (Nečas, 1991). In the beginning of the 1990´s, when the data on Romany criminality became available, the share of Romany people in the overall crime rate of the CR was about 16%, while in Slovakia it was up to 28%, meaning that at the time of the split between the Czech and Slovak Federative Republic, approximately each fifth accused was Romany. An especially large share was burglaries (22% of the total) and in so-called plain thieveries (19%). In Slovakia these numbers were 40% and 36%. There was also a considerable share of immoral offences, especially in the crime of sexual abuse (20% in the CR, 40% in Slovakia). The share of Romany people in violent criminality was in the CR 13% (SR 23%). (Socioklub, 1999). “…we estimate that 20-30% of the economically active Romany population makes their living illegally – by prostitution, peddling or other crimes against property. The adult prisons are by more than 60% Romany. (Říčan, 1998).8 In the beginning of the 1990´s, according to police statistics, in the territory of the former CSFR, 2% of those prosecuted were foreign, 82% were Romany people, and 16% natives; Romany people averaged half of the prosecuted and accused habitual offenders (Matoušek 1998). NOTE: In the early 90's, Gypsies made up less than 2% Czech and ca. 5% Slovak population. 82.100.61.114 14:10, 11 May 2007 (UTC)
I signed up for Wikipedia just to post this criticism of this article.
This article is awful and has no information.
Wikipedia is where I come for information. When I want to know the answer to something I come here, and I expect to find what I'm looking for.
Recently I came across a series of some quotes by Ron Paul which were very critical of blacks. You can flame a guy for being a racist, but you can't flame a guy for reciting facts. Hence my search began to find the facts needed to dispute Paul's comments. I wanted to check out the statistics related to crime and race.
After reading this page it became apparent to me that it used to have more information, but such information was removed. I was able to get the facts I was looking for of course. It is the internet after all. I just had to go somewhere else for it. This is a sensitive subject but there's no purpose served in vandalizing wikipedia because the facts are disagreeable.
The facts are that blacks are more likely to commit certain types of crime than other ethnicities. That's a fact. The reason for this fact is not known to me. Is it become of institutional racism? Is it because of poverty? Is it because of poverty caused by institutional racism? I don't know. That's what this article should have.
The incarceration rates by race and by crime.
The arrest rates by race and by crime.
The description of offenders according to the victims by race and by crime.
The incarceration rates by poverty level and by crime.
The arrest rates by poverty level and by crime.
The incarceration rates by education level and by crime.
The arrest rates by education level and by crime.
These are the facts that I was unable to find in this article.
I suppose my main criticism(admitting that I did not get a chance to read the unabridged version) is that rather than deleting the facts, additional information should have been provided to put the facts in context.
It is my expectation that well-educated and prosperous black men are just as sensible and peaceful as their counterparts from any race. It's my expectation because it's been my experience in life. Statistically I can't confirm that assertion because THIS ARTICLE HAS NO INFORMATION! —Preceding unsigned comment added by Nosynoisemaker ( talk • contribs) 16:09, 30 December 2007 (UTC)
There exists an FBI crime report with detailed arrest/conviction statistics, it doesn't really separate criminals by social class, though. It's mostly race. 76.25.115.99 ( talk) 10:22, 22 May 2008 (UTC)
The article states, "This early research has been refuted by modern criminology and cultural anthropology on grounds of scientific racism (using science or pseudoscience in support of discrimination)"
My dictionary defines refuted as "Overthrow by argument, evidence, or proof". Therefore this sentence makes no sense. You can't refute a scientific claim by calling it racist. At best that would be an ad hominem attack on the motives of the person claiming it. I don't even need to know any of the facts to know that this sentence is wrong. 80.229.27.11 ( talk) 23:36, 2 February 2008 (UTC)
Terms like "scientific racism" basically means someone is assuming that because, for example, a crime report shows blacks are much more likely to commit a crime than other races, it is because the researchers had some kind of inherent bias. This is, of course, bullshit. 76.25.115.99 ( talk) 10:23, 22 May 2008 (UTC)
Why is there no data for Hispanics in the USA? Also, for Canada onli Indians are mentioned. Someone should revise with the correct percentages. ~~eichwulf —Preceding unsigned comment added by 87.126.25.144 ( talk) 21:56, 3 April 2008 (UTC)
I’m also curious as to why Hispanic percentages are not separated from other.-- DavidD4scnrt ( talk) 20:24, 27 April 2008 (UTC)
The Crime in South Africa article links to the Race and crime article but the latter does not mention South Africa. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Ben Mines ( talk • contribs) 09:11, 17 May 2008 (UTC)
I have a problem with one user who keeps removing sourced material. The citation used comes from academic journals, whose content is readily accessible through jstor. First, the user promptly dismisses the source, then changed position and said that such statistics is misleading. This is not NPOV. The statistics cited comes from a research article from a research university, and was peer-reviewed in order to be published in an academic journal, to be placed in the jstor repository. This is very different from hearsay from racist websites or blogs. To remove this reputable, verifiable information and then to accuse it of being misleading is very very wrong, pov, and smells full of original research. If the user can find a legitimate study that disapproves or raises questions about the previous study, then by all means include it in the article. Otherwise, to remove information that is reputable and verifiable (it was published in a peer-reviewed academic journal, for god's sake) and to judge the said study as misleading without providing your own citation, is both pov and original research. Nyuba ( talk) 03:35, 21 May 2008 (UTC)