Myths related to race and criminal victimization in the United States.

Question

According to actual data, is crime inter-racial or intra-racial? Are media depicted images of crime accurate or inaccurate? If the images are inaccurate, offer a theoretical explanation which supports the existence of such.

Answer 1

According to the National Crime Victimization Survey, crime is actually more likely to exist within racial populations as opposed to between them.

This fact challenges the media-based myths that are currently propagated for the purpose of financial profit at the expense reinforcing biased negative assumptions in society.

In terms of explaining this phenomenon, there are a number of sociological theories including the Social Conflict and Strutural Functional Theories.