Document Type
Working Paper
Publication Date
7-9-2012
SSRN Discipline
Legal Scholarship Network; PSN Subject Matter eJournals; Criminal Law & Procedure eJournals; Social Insurance Research Network; Law School Research Papers - Legal Studies; Law & Society eJournals; Law & Society: Public Law eJournals; LSN Subject Matter eJournals; Political Science Network; Political Behavior eJournals
Abstract
Discusses how society has constructed African Americans unfairly as dangerous and criminal Shows how statistics fail to support the common assumption that black crime is more extensive and damaging to society than that perpetrated by other groups especially upperclass whites in executive suites Shows that white not black crime is more likely to get you killed or raid your pocketbook than all street crime combined
Recommended Citation
Richard Delgado,
Rodrigo's Eighth Chronicle: Black Crime, White Fears -- On the Social
Construction of Threat,
(2012).
Available at:
https://scholarship.law.ua.edu/fac_working_papers/236