"Figures from the
Office for National Statistics showed that in 2007 an estimated 10.6 percent of
London's population of 7,556,900 were black.
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"Evidence shows that the black population in
London boroughs increases with the level of deprivation, and that the level of crime also increases with deprivation, such that 'It is clear that ethnicity, deprivation, victimisation and offending are closely and intricately inter-related'"
Race and crime in the United Kingdom - Wikipedia the free encyclopedia
Are you trying to make some point?
Not one you would recognize: Deprivation breeds deceit and violence like structural racism breeds bigots.
No, you're wrong. Deprivation doesn't breed deceit and violence. The arrow of causality is reversed. Those who are predisposed towards deceit and violence are hindered in life and thus tend to find themselves
deprived.
What did surprise him was that when he looked at families which had started poor and got richer, the younger children—those born into relative affluence—were just as likely to misbehave when they were teenagers as their elder siblings had been. Family income was not, per se, the determining factor.
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"In Sweden the age of criminal responsibility is 15, so Mr Sariaslan tracked his subjects from the dates of their 15th birthdays onwards, for an average of three-and-a-half years.
"He found, to no one’s surprise, that teenagers who had grown up in families whose earnings were among the bottom fifth were seven times more likely to be convicted of violent crimes, and twice as likely to be convicted of drug offences, as those whose family incomes were in the top fifth.
"What did surprise him was that when he looked at families which had started poor and got richer, the younger children—those born into relative affluence—were just as likely to misbehave when they were teenagers as their elder siblings had been. Family income was not, per se, the determining factor."
Sweden lacks the racial politics that consigned US Blacks to second-class citizenship status for a century after the end of chattel slavery.
Crime and poverty To have and have not The Economist