Intraracial Crime in the United States

Intraracial Crime in relation to Crime and Race

Intraracial Crime is included in the Encyclopedia of Race and Crime (1), beginning with: Intraracial crime is crime in which the victim and the offender are of the same race. It is most applicable in the context of heterogeneous societies, that is, in societies, such as the United States, where the potential victim pool is composed of more than one racial group. Of the Federal Bureau of Investigation’s Part I crimes (homicide, forcible rape, assault, robbery, arson, larceny-theft, motor-vehicle theft, and burglary), most of the recorded data, in which the race of both the victim and the offender is known, centers around violent offenses, such as forcible rape, robbery, aggravated assault, and homicide. National-level arrest statistics indicate that most violent crime is intraracial. This has been shown to be especially true of homicide and assault. Fewer data are available on offender-victim race with regard to property crime, such as burglary, larceny-theft, and arson.

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Notes and References

1. Entry about Intraracial Crime in the Encyclopedia of Race and Crime

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