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16 J. Psychiatry & L. 269 (1988)
Blacks and Violent Crime: A Psychoanalytically Oriented Analysis

handle is hein.journals/jpsych16 and id is 283 raw text is: The Journal of Psychiatry & Law/Summer 1988 Blacks and violent crime: a psychoanalytically oriented analysis BY C. G. SCHOENFELD, ESQ. This article offers a psychoanalytic explanation of why blacks commit a disproportionate number-half-of violent crimes in the United States. Slavery and its crippling psychological effects are discussed, as are the devastating psychological consequences of the hundred years of discrimination, segregation, and antiblack terror that followed. The conclusion reached is that black aggression was stimulated inordinately by all this, while simultaneously the black superego was decisively weakened and rendered incomplete and conflicted. These psychological difficulties have persisted and become endemic among the poor, uneducated, lower-class blacks who populate the rotting core of many American cities. Unlike their parents and grandparents, however, they no longer fear imminent bodily harm or death at the hands of violent whites and no longer turn their aggression back upon themselves and become depressed, but feel free to externalize their aggression in periodic riots and violent crime. The solutions suggested in this article include the elimination of social policies that stimulate the aggression of blacks by threatening their sense of self-worth, and the promotion of social policies that help to strengthen their superegos; e.g., minimizing the number of fatherless blarck households. Ways of using the criminal law to reinforce the black superego are also considered. Blacks constitute 111/2016 to 12% of the population of the United States, yet they are probably responsible for half of its violent crime: homicide, forcible rape, aggravated assault, and robbery. Why this is so and what can be done about it © 1988 by Federal Legal Publications, Inc.

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