Structural Factors and Black Interracial Homicide

A New Examination of the Causal Process

Bibliographic Data

ID9679727
AuthorsTim Wadsworth (University of Colorado System, corresponding author), Charis E Kubrin (0000-0002-0600-0875, University of California, Irvine)
Year2004
Volume42
Issue3
Pages647-672
Publication date2004-08-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueCriminology (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0011-1384 • E-ISSN: 1745-9125
PublisherWiley (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1111/j.1745-9125.2004.tb00532.x
OpenAlexW2111365332
LanguageEN
Citations received28
References cited29

This study evaluates the assumption that deprivation among African Americans and racial inequality lead to black interracial homicide due to racial conflict and antagonism. Using refined race‐adjusted Supplemental Homicide Report data, Uniform Crime Report data and census data, we test an alternative hypothesis that draws on the macrostructural opportunity theory to assess and more accurately specify the relationship between structural characteristics and black interracial homicide. We find that first, the relationship between economic factors and black interracial homicide can be explained in large part by high rates of financially motivated crime such as robbery, and second, that economic factors are associated with financially motivated but not expressive black interracial killings. Analyses of black intraracial killings are performed for comparison purposes. Collectively, the findings suggest that conflict‐based explanations rooted in racial antagonism and frustration aggression may be premature

Aggression · Criminology · Homicide · Inequality · Poison control · Race (biology · Sociology · Crime Patterns and Interventions · Crime, Illicit Activities, and Governance · Gender Studies · Human Factors and Ergonomics · Medicine · Psychology · Social Psychology · Urban, Neighborhood, and Segregation Studies

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