concepts
type: Collection
type: ConceptGroup
member: race and violence

race and crime
type: Concept
narrower: race and violence

race and violence
type: Concept
broader: race and crime
definition: Race and ethnicity continue to be among the most important predictors of violent crime commission and victimization in the United States. The media have given great attention to this issue, and in the last decade of the twentieth century, social scientists also focused on it. [Source: Encyclopedia of Crime and Punishment; Race and Violence]