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30 J. Offender Rehab. 1 (2000)

handle is hein.journals/wjor30 and id is 1 raw text is: Race, Ethnicity, Sexual Orientation, Violent Crime: The Realities and the Myths. Pp. 1-33. 2000 by The Haworth Press, Inc. All rights reserved. Blacks and Whites as Victims and Offenders in Aggressive Crime in the U.S.: Myths and Realities NATHANIEL J. PALLONE Rutgers University JAMES J. HENNESSY Fordham University ABSTRACT This paper analyzes data on the annual incidence of aggressive crime (homicide, sexual assault, aggravated assault) in relation to race, con- trasting proportional distribution of Blacks and whites among victims and offenders in relation to their representation in the general U.S. population. Blacks are over-represented among offenders in each category of aggressive crime: in homicide at a level 315% greater than their representation in the general population, in sexual assault at a level 404% as great, in aggravated assault at 274% greater than their representation in the general population. Whites and others are under-represented among offenders. Blacks are at highly increased risk, relative to their representation in the nation's popula- tion, for victimization in homicide and at some disadvantage (although not at a level appropriately denominated as risk in a statistical sense) for victimization in both sexual and aggravated assault. Episodes of criminal aggression initi- ated by white offenders account for slightly more than 73% of all single-of- fender episodes of aggressive crime, while episodes initiated by Black offend- ers account for approximately 27%, so that white-perpetrated criminal aggression exceeds Black-initiated criminal aggression at a ratio of 2.7:1. Blacks are represented among offenders in aggressive crime slightly more than twice their representation in the nation's population. It is more than five times as likely that a white victim has been set upon by a white offender than

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