Black on Black Crime in America

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Expanded Homicide Data Table 3
Murder
Race, Ethnicity, and Sex of Victim by Race, Ethnicity, and Sex of Offender, 2016
[Single victim/single offender]
Race of victim	Total	Race of offender	Sex of offender	Ethnicity of offender
White	Black or African American	Other1	Unknown	Male	Female	Unknown	Hispanic or Latino	Not Hispanic or Latino	Unknown
White	3,499	2,854	533	40	72	3,157	335	7	789	1,438	366
Black or African American	2,870	243	2,570	17	40	2,586	270	14	95	1,613	349
Other race1	221	56	37	123	5	185	35	1	14	132	24
Unknown race	86	43	16	4	23	75	11	0	12	24	17
Sex of victim	Total	Race of offender	Sex of offender	Ethnicity of offender
White	Black or African American	Other1	Unknown	Male	Female	Unknown	Hispanic or Latino	Not Hispanic or Latino	Unknown
Male	4,751	2,073	2,455	114	109	4,260	471	20	685	2,264	537
Female	1,913	1,117	696	70	30	1,735	176	2	225	939	217
Unknown sex	12	5	5	1	1	8	4	0	0	4	2
Ethnicity of victim	Total	Race of offender	Sex of offender	Ethnicity of offender
White	Black or African American	Other1	Unknown	Male	Female	Unknown	Hispanic or Latino	Not Hispanic or Latino	Unknown
Hispanic or Latino	985	792	142	10	41	907	63	15	661	205	39
Not Hispanic or Latino	4,257	1,728	2,156	122	251	3,629	424	204	229	2,913	134
Unknown	931	372	446	23	90	767	103	61	19	86	581
1 Includes American Indian or Alaska Native, Asian, and Native Hawaiian or Other Pacific Islander.
NOTE: This table is based on incidents where some information about the offender is known by law enforcement; therefore, this table excludes data when the offender age, sex, race, and ethnicity are all reported as unknown.

 

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Black-on-Black Homicide - A Psychological-Political Perspective​

NCJ Number

93508
Journal
Victimology Volume: 8 Issue: 3-4 Dated: (1983) Pages: 161-169
Author(s)

A F Poussaint
Date Published
1983
Length

9 pages
Annotation

Black homicide rates are seven to eight times those of whites though Blacks have a rate of poverty only four to five times that of whites.
Abstract

Today homicide is the leading cause of death among young Black men, and contributes significantly to the shortened life-span of the Black male. In about 80-90% of the cases, the Black victim was killed by another Black, and about 52% of the murder victims were acquainted with their assailant. Just as we accept that suicide victims are psychologically impaired, we must acknowledge that a murderer is similarly impaired, and Blacks -- for both environmental and political reasons -- are likely to reflect emotional predispositions that allow them to more readily become a homicide statistic. Projected self-hatred facilitates blind rage and gives the perpetrator of the violent attack a sense of legitimacy and justification. In addition, Blacks have been indoctrinated by a criminal justice system which places higher value on a white life than on a Black life. While psychological study of homicide offenders and victims is difficult and not easily quantifiable, it is important to explore such variables in Black community violence. Programs focused on crime and violence prevention, therefore, must do more than alleviate socioeconomic ills in the the Black community. They must pay attention as well to negative psychological dynamics in the Black experience that contribute to internecine victimization. The Black community in particular is in dire need of homicide prevention centers with programs of prevention, research and treatment. (Author abstract)

 

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