The complicated relationship between race and crime has been a enormous debate in the United states. Since the 1980s there has been a vast increase in racial crime due to a massive increase in population. For example in the textbook Juvenile Delinquency the core 6th edition it states that “ There are approximately 40 million European American and 10 million African American youths ages 5 to 17, a ratio of about four to one” ( Larry J. Siegel & Brandon C. Welsh 46). This shows the large increase in criminal activity because of more people in the world. As time keeps on passing people are sometimes suspected of being bad because of their race and because of that some races get treated differently. Another example is in the textbook Juvenile
