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Study reports murders by Black teenage men rise

By Real Cost of Prisons Project (The Sentencing Project)

"Bruce Western, a sociologist at Harvard, cautioned that the change in murder rates was not large and did not yet show a clear trend. Dr. Western also said that the impact of the reduction in government spending on crime control would have to be studied on a city-by-city basis, and that many other changes, including a sagging economy, could have affected murder rates." December 29, 2008 Murders by Black Teenagers Rise, Bucking a Trend By ERIK ECKHOLM NY Times The murder rate among black teenagers has climbed since 2000 even as murders by young whites have scarcely grown or declined in some places, according to a new report. The celebrated reduction in murder rates nationally has concealed a ?worrisome divergence,? said James Alan Fox, a criminal justice professor at Northeastern University who wrote the report, to be released Monday, with Marc L...continue to full post

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