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social science subjects > criminology and criminal justice > criminology > race and crime > race and violence

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race and violence  

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  • 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]

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http://data.loterre.fr/ark:/67375/N9J-SSC04BPR-6

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