User:Caziahbessix/sandbox

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babakotia is an a extinct lemur

first fossils were found in 1980's

belongs to the family palaleopropithecus

weighed in between 35-44 pounds which is considered medium size of the lemurs

they were only found in limestone caves in ankarana massif

The article I have decided to contribute to is “Race and Crime”. This article is long and only gives a general sense of the topic. The article does not present enough statistics by race and the crimes that are committed.Also the article do not show the connection between race and poverty, race and equality. I believe this should be included because it gives you an idea of why the crime rates are higher amongst different races.

I will be providing to the article a timeline of statistics from the 1950’s to 2017, to show the increased crime rates amongst African Americans, whites, Hispanics , and Latinos. I will also include poverty rates and their relationship to crime.I will also provide jail sentencing times from the same crimes committed by race, to show the unequal sentencing we have in the United States. My contribution will also provide information about racial discrimination and its connection towards crime.

Race and Crime in the US outline

1990-African American homicide rate was 1-21 chance of murder, leading cause of death 2015-20.9% per 100,000(homicide rate)almost 4 times greater than nations average(5.7%).

1990-1-131 of whites homicide rate 2015-whites 2.6% per 100,000

2015-4.9% hispanics


 * since 1950 African Americans had the highest homicide rate.

Poverty rate Blacks-30% Whites-14% Hispanics-24%

Studies show that poverty and crime are related, this can explain the high homicide and incarcerated rates amongst African Americans.

Serving LWOP non violence offenders

Nationwide Blacks-65.4% Whites-17.8% Latinos-15.4%

Racial disparities Louisiana-23 blacks to 1 white man sentenced to LWOP for non violence offense

Chicago-18 blacks to 1 white sentenced

Oklahoma-18 blacks to 1 white sentences

Mississippi-6 blacks to 1 white sentenced

This shows the unjust judiciary system and unfair sentencing ,racial discrimination and profiling in the United States

Incarceration statistics and inequality amongst sentencing according to race 2010-African Americans 2,207 per 100,000

Latinos-996 per 100,000

Whites-380 per 100,000

Arrests and sentencing
A 2011 study which examined violent crime trends between 1980 and 2008 found that racial imbalances between arrest and incarceration levels were both small and comparably sized across the study period.The authors argued that the prior studies had been confounded by not separating Hispanics from Whites. Another recent study in 2012 raises a different concern, showing that Hispanics and blacks receive considerably longer sentences for the same or lesser offenses on average than white offenders with equal or greater criminal records.

A 2012 University of Michigan Law School study found that African Americans are given longer federal sentences even when factoring prior criminal records, and that African American jail sentences tend to be roughly 10% longer than white jail sentences for the same crimes. The study found that federal prosecutors of African American and Hispanic defendants are almost twice as likely to push for mandatory minimum sentences leading to longer sentences and disparities in incarceration rates for federal offenses.

I will be putting my contribution under this paragraph to make it more detail and expand the racial disparities in prison The relation between poor and rich countries and their poverty rate  compared to their crime rate this table is showing in the richest cities of the US, crime statistics and poverty rate is lower and white, and Asians are more common in these places ,which races have low poverty rates.whites(8.7%) Asians(10%) This table demonstrates that cities with higher poverty rate have high higher crime rates.The population by race shows that African Americans and Hispanics/Latinos are more common in these areas. Further researched shows that African American have the highest poverty rate of 21%,Latinos following by 18%

1.) Illinois poverty rate is 12.6%, but Chicago poverty rate is 21.7%, this corresponds with my argument cities with higher crime rates have higher poverty rate

2.)African Americans receive longer sentencing for the same trials

Peer Review
Hey Caziah! Your tables are extremely neat and organized, and you have good information, I just have a couple critiques. One is, for your first table, the names for each section are detached, when they need to be attached to the table they belong to. Also, pay attention to capitalization. For example in the second table, you capitalized Latino in one part and had it lower cased in another. Just make sure everything in your table has the same skeleton and you should be good. Also, make sure to cite.Good work! Ktardy (talk) 04:47, 2 November 2018 (UTC)ktardy

Second Draft

'''Good improvements, but most of your information here is still completely uncited. If you do not indicate where this information is coming from the tables will be removed by Wiki editors. So make sure you include all the citations with all the information, and also you should indicate where this information is going, and how it connects to the human rights element of the assignment (in other words, some text to introduce the tables) 74.104.123.46 (talk) 16:20, 21 November 2018 (UTC)profemanley'''

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