I'm sick of hearing this excuse. It has nothing to doing with being marginalized, lacking political or economic power. Black communities support criminals hence all the marching against cops and whining about how bad the poor wittle criminals were treated. Many poor poor whites would never dream of committing crimes, and hence their communities poor with less political power than black communities don't commit crimes.
I grew up--very poor--I didn't commit crimes. Most of the farm kids were poor. Even in school----rich or poor, blacks committed more crimes and supported other criminals. I went to a high school that won the Texas State championship---after they did that--they redrew their district to encompass the black housing units that had a couple of football players that they wanted---JJ being one who could barely write his name, and the coaches had to go take his tests for him to keep him playing------the housing projects stole and often assaulted others-------most of the airforce brats (rich by our standards) (black) supported and even often partook in the crimes. When I started junior high school--the boys would keep their guns on gun racks in the back of their trucks--but by the time I graduated, they had to stop doing because of the thefts. The convenience stores and fast food joints around the school began to be rob at an epidemic rate, and began to offer free coffee and donuts to cops to keep them in the building. Signs went up forbidding more than 2 people in the stores at a time-------and so much more.
It's a lie to blame economics---economics has nothing to do with being a criminal.