Violent Crime 'Race Gap' Narrows, But Persists In U.S. (Medical News Today)

9 March 2010, 8:11 am

The U.S. 'race gap' in the commission of violent crime has narrowed substantially, yet persists - with murder arrest rates for African Americans still out-distancing those for whites - concludes a new 80-city study by the University of Maryland, Florida State University and the University of Oregon. While the gap had been cut by more than half in the 1970s, it grew again in the '80s with the ...... Read More »

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