In the United States race plays a major part in society today. We live in a world where we are judge because, of the color of our skin and not our character or the person that we are in the inside instead, of what shows on the outside. African Americans are born into a world where they are judge when they are first born because of the color of their skin. I will be answering the question what is the relationship between race-ethnicity and the likelihood of being arrested? Is there a difference between the two?
Review Of Prior Research
D’Alesio and Stolzenberg (2003). Use 1999 data from the National Incident Based Reporting System (NIBRS) they exam a possible link between a reported incident of crime and a subsequent arrest. They find that African Americans are arrested less than white citizens for aggravated assault, robbery, and simple assault, There is no evidence of discrimination Controlling for other relevant variables.
Data shows that there is no connection between whites and African American in certain crime rate. There can be crimes that are not reported or have not been followed up upon in the …show more content…
The relationship between my dependent variable and my independent variable shows that 20.7 % whites were picked up and charged by police 23.6% of blacks and 22.6 % was other race that were reported in the study were picked up or charged by police. The study want to show were there a difference people getting arrested and the reason of the arrest was their justification or was it just because the color of someone skin. I expected to find in this study that more African Americans were likely to be picked up or charged by police than white Americans in the United States. The relationship between the two findings exists because there was others in the data that was ask the question instead of white and black
Review Of Prior Research
D’Alesio and Stolzenberg (2003). Use 1999 data from the National Incident Based Reporting System (NIBRS) they exam a possible link between a reported incident of crime and a subsequent arrest. They find that African Americans are arrested less than white citizens for aggravated assault, robbery, and simple assault, There is no evidence of discrimination Controlling for other relevant variables.
Data shows that there is no connection between whites and African American in certain crime rate. There can be crimes that are not reported or have not been followed up upon in the …show more content…
The relationship between my dependent variable and my independent variable shows that 20.7 % whites were picked up and charged by police 23.6% of blacks and 22.6 % was other race that were reported in the study were picked up or charged by police. The study want to show were there a difference people getting arrested and the reason of the arrest was their justification or was it just because the color of someone skin. I expected to find in this study that more African Americans were likely to be picked up or charged by police than white Americans in the United States. The relationship between the two findings exists because there was others in the data that was ask the question instead of white and black