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Wright, B.R., & Younts, C.W. (2009). Reconsidering the Relationship between Race and Crime: Positive and Negative Predictors of Crime among African American Youth. Journal of Research in Crime and Delinquency, 46(3), 327-352.

1. Explain the concept of cross-cancelling mechanisms.

2. Describe 2 positive linkages posited by social control theory that serve to explain differential criminal behavior between blacks and whites.

3. How does strain theory explain differential criminal offending between blacks and whites?

4. Describe 2 factors associated with decreased criminal offending among blacks.

Piquero, A., & Brame, R.W. (2008). Assessing the Race–Crime and Ethnicity–Crime Relationship in a Sample of Serious Adolescent Delinquents. Crime & Delinquency, 54(3), 390-422.

1. What are the 2 competing explanations for the racial disparities in arrest rates?

2. Describe the basic premise of the differential involvement hypothesis.

3. What did Hindelang discover in his research into the relationship between race and crime?

Peterson, R.D., & Krivo, L.J. (2009). Segregated Spatial Locations, Race-Ethnic Composition, and Neighborhood Violent Crime. The ANNALS of the American Academy of Political and Social Science, 623(1), 93-107.

1. How are spatial effects likely to be racialized and contribute to higher levels of crime and violence in larger urban areas?

2. Briefly describe the conclusions reached by the authors of this study with respect to neighborhood conditions and violence across neighborhoods?

3. What were the implications offered by the authors pertaining to the results obtained?