AFRICAN AMERICAN COLLECTIVE ACTION AND CRIME, 1955-91. |
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LaFree, Gary and Drass, Kriss A.
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1/1/97
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Journal
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Social Forces
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75(3)p.835-854
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African American
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Connections between collective action and common crime are often politically sensitive: regimes may benefit to the extent that they can dismiss collective action as the work of criminals; criminals may benefitto the extent that they can justify their actions as politically motivated. Although there is widespread disagreement about the exact relationship between collective action and crime, the dominant sociologicalview in recent years has been that the incidences of the two are unrelated. Analysis of annual changes in African-American civil rights-related collective action and African-American and white arrest rates (robberyhomicide, burglary), 1955-91, reveals a more complex relationship: collective action and crime rates are positively related until the mid-1970 s for both African Americans and whites but unrelated, or negativelyrelated, afterward.
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