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“Where a higher percentage of crime involves a black offender and a white victim, blacks have a substantially higher likelihood of being arrested… Differential arrest of blacks… reflects the degree of criminal threat that blacks constitute for whites in that area."

Racial Threat and Social Control: A Test of the Political, Economic, and Threat of Black Crime Hypotheses Racial Threat and Social Control: A Test of the Political, Economic, and Threat of Black Crime Hypotheses
Racial Threat and Social Control: A Test of the Political, Economic, and Threat of Black Crime Hypotheses
Social Forces
Eitle, David / D’Alessio, Stewart J. / Stolzenberg, Lisa
Vol. 81 Issue 2, pp. 557–576, 2002
10.1353/sof.2003.0007
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