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I assumed that systemic oppression had caused poverty which led to increased crime rates in black US populations. But

wrote a fantastic piece I'm just now seeing in which they find this is not the case; it seems to be fatherlessness. 1/ randomcriticalanalysis.com/2015/11/16/rac

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When controlling for poverty, black people still have higher crime rates - but this is not really the case if you control for *single motherhood*; as in, poor black communities with lots of fathers don't have more crime. Cool - if this is true, this seems useful! But- 2/

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Why is there such high fatherlessness? Black people tend to cheat more, which is probably a piece to this puzzle, but it only kicks the can farther down the road - *why* do they cheat more? When and how did this disparity start? 3/ ifstudies.org/blog/who-cheat

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Black people are more religious pewforum.org/religious-land and more socially conservative pewforum.org/fact-sheet/cha which I would have guessed predicts greater monogamy and 'nuclear family', but seems not to be the case. How long has this been going on? 4/

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en.wikipedia.org/wiki/African-A This has some theories: *African culture emphasizes extended networks, not fatherhood *Something something welfare? *Incarceration? But why didn't this create fatherlessness/cheating/broken families for white people in similar situations?

en.wikipedia.org

African-American family structure - Wikipedia

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Maybe because they can. Suppose there is an external force (systemic bias in law enforcement?) that causes some people to leave the marriage market, and this force affects one gender much more than the other. The resulting gender imbalance can really mess up the marriage market.

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Mass incarceration is a reason that comes to mind. Should check numbers. Also, please read the article more carefully: it claims crime prediction, i.e. correlation. It does not claim causation.

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I thought it was widely known that was the main goal of the war on drugs. Not based on any facts, it just made a lot of sense to me.

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