Best books about forensic psychology according to redditors
We found 63 Reddit comments discussing the best books about forensic psychology. We ranked the 30 resulting products by number of redditors who mentioned them. Here are the top 20.
We found 63 Reddit comments discussing the best books about forensic psychology. We ranked the 30 resulting products by number of redditors who mentioned them. Here are the top 20.
https://www.amazon.com/gp/aw/d/0123860296/ref=dbs_a_w_dp_0123860296
https://www.amazon.com/Criminal-Profiling-Introduction-Behavioral-Evidence/dp/0123852439
Why do people rape?
Most rapes are carried out without a weapon. The most common weapon used, when a weapon is involved, is a knife. Firearms are rarely used in the commission of a rape.
Those are the FBI’s three archetypes for criminal profiles for sex criminals.
> from her book, she reports that pot use is similar btwn white and black populations, but the amount of arrests/incarcerations for black populations is some multiple of white populations.
This is a common talking point among her type. There are several dimensions along which this is wrong or misleading.
Surveys Understate Black Drug Usage
The standard evidence that drug use rates don't differ by race comes from surveys of the general population, but blacks are more likely than whites to lie about using drugs. This is seen in situations where we have both self-report and urine test data:
http://corescholar.libraries.wright.edu/aids/21/
http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.3109/10826087709027235
https://www.researchgate.net/publication/232439635_Drug_Use_among_Juvenile_Arrestees_A_Comparison_of_Self-Report_Urinalysis_and_Hair_Assay
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3455900/pdf/11524_2006_Article_433.pdf
More broadly, blacks under-report all criminal behavior in surveys relative to whites.
There Are Qualitative Differences Between Black and White Drug Use
The police are not uniform filters on society, trying to arrest a representative sample of drug users. "Drug users" generally are not the primary concern of the police, who have more important laws to enforce and problems to deal with. The police are more likely to arrest drug users and dealers when their activity is conspicuous or otherwise intersects with their domain of concern. There are reasons to believe that, all else being equal, blacks engage in behavior that puts them far more at risk of being caught by police for petty drug crime:
Black-white differences in reported drug-purchasing behavior in the National Survey on Drug Use and Health:
There Are Benign Explanations For Black-White Drug Arrest Disparity
As stated above, busting everyone with a joint is not the goal of most police. The efforts of the police are focused on violent and property crimes. Blacks and black-dense areas have high violent and property crimes generally, which gives blacks more potential interactions with the police in which drugs can be found. Evidence for this explanation is that black drugs users are more likely to use in areas with high crime rates., putting them at obvious risk for police encounters.
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Finally, the framing of drug enforcement as a white-on-black issue is dubious, as in recent decades, blacks were more pro-criminalization than white, seeing drug crackdowns as necessary in their community. It is only very recently that this has shifted and blacks have become more pro-legalization and adopted a victim narrative of drug enforcement handed to them by anti-drug-war whites.
He's a Chapo retard.
Fixed
Europeans and Asians are subject to more recent evolution than Africans. Source: http://www.nytimes.com/2010/07/20/science/20adapt.html
48% of African Americans have Herpes Simplex Virus. Source: http://www.cdc.gov/stdconference/2000/media/AfAmericans2000.htm
Gonorrhea rates are 30x higher in African Americans than in Whites. Source: http://www.cdc.gov/stdconference/2000/media/AfAmericans2000.htm
Police hesitate longer to shoot Black suspects than White suspects. Source: http://link.springer.com/article/10.1007%2Fs11292-014-9204-9
Over 100 White women are raped or sexually assaulted by Black men every day in the United States. Source: http://archive.frontpagemag.com/readArticle.aspx?ARTID=26368
Blacks are overrepresented in serial killings, and this overrepresentation is increasing. Source: http://maamodt.asp.radford.edu/Serial%20Killer%20Information%20Center/Serial%20Killer%20Statistics.pdf#page=3
Blacks are overrepresented among child abusers, and this isn’t due to biased reporting. Source: http://www.theroot.com/articles/culture/2011/03/Black\_childabuse\_statistics\_report\_debunks\_bias\_assumptions.html
39% of all cop killers are Black, although Blacks are only 12% of the population. Source: https://www.fbi.gov/about-us/cjis/ucr/leoka/2013/officers-feloniously-killed/felonious\_topic\_page\_2013.pdf#page=4
73% of Black babies are born out of wedlock. Source: http://www.cdc.gov/nchs/data/nvsr/nvsr61/nvsr61\_01.pdf#page=8
The average Black has an IQ score 1 standard deviation (15 IQ points) lower than the average White. Source: http://www.gifted.uconn.edu/siegle/research/correlation/intelligence.pdf
The Black-White IQ gap in America is equal to the gap in South Africa, even though SA is ruled by Blacks. Source: http://psychology.uwo.ca/faculty/rushtonpdfs/ravensiii.pdf
The Black-White IQ gap exists even when both races are raised in identical environments. Source: http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/016028969290028P
93% of Black men who are murdered are killed by other Black men. Source: http://www.bjs.gov/content/pub/pdf/bvvc.pdf#page=3
The Black-White IQ gap still exists and has not decreased in size. Source: http://emilkirkegaard.dk/en/wp-content/uploads/The%20totality%20of%20available%20evidence%20shows%20the%20race%20IQ%20gap%20still%20remains.pdf
70% of Black children are born out of wedlock. Source: http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract\_id=2625893
Blacks commit 56% of all robberies, despite being only 12% of the population. Source: https://www.fbi.gov/about-us/cjis/ucr/crime-in-the-u.s/2013/crime-in-the-u.s.-2013/tables/table-43
Blacks commit 50% of all murders, despite being only 12% of the population. Source: https://www.fbi.gov/about-us/cjis/ucr/crime-in-the-u.s/2013/crime-in-the-u.s.-2013/tables/table-43
Despite making up less than 12% of the US population, Blacks commit 1 in every 3 rapes. Source: https://www.fbi.gov/about-us/cjis/ucr/crime-in-the-u.s/2013/crime-in-the-u.s.-2013/tables/table-43
Young Black men kill 14x more often than young White men. Source: http://ideas.time.com/2013/08/22/viewpoint-dont-ignore-race-in-christopher-lanes-murder/#ixzz2ciWBxj00
Africans have higher rates of a gene associated with violence. Source: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1913922/
Black women are 4x more likely to be overweight than White women. Source: http://sf.oxfordjournals.org/content/89/3/807.abstract
Blacks are 7x more likely than Whites to commit murder. Source: http://www.colorofcrime.com/2005/10/the-color-of-crime-2005/
Students of all races perform worse in schools with more Black students. Source: http://www.usnews.com/news/articles/2015/09/24/study-finds-students-underperform-in-schools-with-large-Black-populations
Blacks have an average brain size of 1267 cubic cm, compared to Whites at 1347 cm. Source: http://psychology.uwo.ca/faculty/rushtonpdfs/RandRProgressIntell2003.pdf
97% of White men refuse to date Black women. Source: http://sf.oxfordjournals.org/content/89/3/807.abstract
The percentage of Blacks in a city, not poverty, is the best predictor of crime. Source: http://www.unz.com/article/race-and-crime-in-america/
Blacks are 600% more likely than non-Blacks to commit murder. Source: http://www.unz.com/article/race-and-crime-in-america/
In New York City, 1% of people arrested for shootings were White, while 74% were Black. Source: http://www.nyc.gov/html/nypd/downloads/pdf/analysis\_and\_planning/enforcement\_report\_year\_end\_2014.pdf#page=17
In New York City, 43% of people arrested for rape were Black. Source: http://www.nyc.gov/html/nypd/downloads/pdf/analysis\_and\_planning/enforcement\_report\_year\_end\_2014.pdf#page=8
In New York City, 61% of people arrested for robbery were Black. Source: http://www.nyc.gov/html/nypd/downloads/pdf/analysis\_and\_planning/enforcement\_report\_year\_end\_2014.pdf#page=10
Blacks have lower emotional intelligence than Whites. Source: http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/ijsa.12069/abstract
In Canada, Blacks comprise 2% of the population but 6% of prisoners. Source: http://www.csc-scc.gc.ca/research/r144-eng.shtml
Blacks are more likely than Whites to be narcissistic. Source: http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0092656611000912
67% of people arrested for gun crime in London are Black, although Blacks are only 12% of the population. Source: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/crime/7856787/Violent-inner-city-crime-the-figures-and-a-question-of-race.html
Black men in London are only 12% of the population, but commit 32% of rape. Source: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/crime/7856787/Violent-inner-city-crime-the-figures-and-a-question-of-race.html
1 in 4 South African men has admitted to rape. Source: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/africa/8107039.stm
Blacks are 90% more likely than Whites to be psychopathic. Source: http://psycnet.apa.org/?&fa=main.doiLanding&doi=10.1037/0022-006X.76.5.893
A Black person in Britain is 2x as likely to be in jail as to be in university. Source: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/1449468/Twice-as-many-Blacks-in-jail-as-at-university.html
70% of Ethiopian women report having been physically or sexually abused. Source: http://www.thelancet.com/pdfs/journals/lancet/PIIS0140-6736%2806%2969523-8.pdf
Blacks are more prone to psychopathy and less capable of empathy than Whites. Source: http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0191886901000290
Blacks commit more violent crime against Whites than against other Blacks. Source: http://www.colorofcrime.com/2005/10/the-color-of-crime-2005/
Blacks are 39x more likely to commit a violent crime against Whites than vice versa. Source: http://www.colorofcrime.com/2005/10/the-color-of-crime-2005/
Blacks are 136x more likely to commit a violent crime against Whites than vice versa. Source: http://www.colorofcrime.com/2005/10/the-color-of-crime-2005/
Blacks are 2x more likely to commit a hate crime against Whites than vice versa. Source: http://www.colorofcrime.com/2005/10/the-color-of-crime-2005/
Blacks are 3x more likely than Whites to commit White-collar crime (fraud, bribery, racketeering, embezzlement). Source: http://www.colorofcrime.com/2005/10/the-color-of-crime-2005/
Areas with more Black people have higher rates of crime. Source: http://www.amazon.com/Handbook-Crime-Correlates-Lee-Ellis/dp/0123736129
Blacks assign less value to marriage than Whites. Source: http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0191886901000290
Blacks are significantly less likely than Whites to have harmonious or satisfying marriages. Source: http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0191886901000290
Blacks are more likely to default on loans than other races. Source: http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0191886901000290
Blacks are 80% more likely than Whites to neglect their children. Source: http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0191886901000290
Blacks are more likely to have ADHD than Whites. Source: http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0191886901000290
Blacks have less moral understanding that Whites. Source: http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0191886901000290
Blacks are more reckless than Whites. Source: http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0191886901000290
Blacks are 2x as likely to subject their children to severe violence than Whites. Source: http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0191886901000290
Black men are 4x more likely to beat their wives than White men. Source: http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0191886901000290
Black women are more than 2x as likely as White women to abuse their husbands. Source: http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0191886901000290
Black youth are 2.5x as likely as White youth to have raped someone. Source: http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0191886901000290
In London, Blacks are 6x more likely than Whites to be imprisoned. Source: http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0191886901000290
Blacks are more likely to kill their spouses than other races. Source: http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0191886901000290
Blacks are 50% more likely to cheat on their spouses than Whites. Source: http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0191886901000290
Blacks have less perseverance than other races. Source: http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0191886901000290
Black college students have poorer grades than students of other races with the same IQ. Source: http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0191886901000290
Blacks do less homework than Whites. Source: http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0191886901000290
Even after adjusting for SAT scores, Blacks have worse college grades than Whites. Source: http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0191886901000290
You're getting downvoted because this sub is heavily populated with people who went to school for a long long time to learn the difference. Forensic and clinical psychologists, criminal lawyers, law enforcement personnel, and just your basic level criminology students are pretty familiar with this material.
If you'd like to learn more, here's a book with an entire chapter on the difference between spree killings and serial killers: Criminal Profiling: An Introduction to Behavioral Evidence Analysis https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0057X0JYW/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_apa_0NC1BbSVM7J8J
Sometimes, if someone knows more than you, there are better ways to approach it than condescendingly going to "That's your logic????"
FUCK FUCK FUCK always meant to archive it but was too busy to get around to it
/u/BasedGodfrey did the lord's work though:
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r/StrangeStatistics Archive Links:
https://archive.fo/Y35EQ (The National Institute for Literacy estimates that 47% of adults (more than 200,000 individuals) in the City of Detroit are functionally illiterate, referring to the inability of an individual to use reading, speaking, writing, and computational skills in everyday life situations.)
https://archive.fo/bz1Na (Life-cycle effects for migrants from Iraq and Somalia moving to Finland between the ages of 20 to 24; Iraq immigrant is a net deficit over their lifetime of -690,000 EUR, Somalia immigrant net deficit -951,000 EUR)
https://archive.fo/K4hDQ (Posting Rules)
https://archive.fo/SFDM3 (Rape has increased close to 1700 percent from 1975 in Sweden. this is progress sweaty!!!) - https://archive.fo/6oRwn - https://archive.fo/qBAbr - https://archive.fo/Ml1A5 - [BBC article is a 404] -https://archive.fo/nsKjG (This one is basically useless as archive.fo doesn’t record the map) - https://archive.fo/JBuLF
https://archive.fo/WOwmJ (Half of US Black women have genital herpes. 80% of those infected do not know it. (CDC, 2010) - https://archive.fo/eqUtY
https://archive.fo/DnC5l (47% of Muslims living in the US say that terrorism against military AND civilian targets is sometimes justifiable.) - https://archive.fo/XuVmS
https://archive.fo/YeRjd (Over 46% of male homosexuals report being sexually abused as children compared to only 7% of heterosexuals. Child abuse is possibly a primary factor in the development of homosexuality.) -https://archive.fo/P4IAl - https://archive.fo/Dv6SY
https://archive.fo/CBVFU (MuH DiVeRsItY)
https://archive.fo/L0TFT (Debunking studies (immigration)) [I didn’t feel like archiving the multitude of links in the post, as many were already archived]
https://archive.fo/3FA1K (Black men have much higher estrogen than men of other races)
https://archive.fo/pSdkF (20% of black adults nation-wide cannot read. 40% of Hispanic adults cannot read English.)
https://archive.fo/8Aa0R (The Anti-Sodomite Anthology)
https://archive.fo/Up7I8 (71% of Silicon Valley tech workers are foreign-born.)
https://archive.fo/nbraz (% that believe it's "Very/Somewhat Good" that American Whites will be a minority in 2050)
https://archive.fo/5AFMp ('Five years ago, we published analysis showing that high levels of immigration hurts Republicans in elections, regardless of what position the party takes on illegal immigration')
https://archive.fo/OfZMS (Gonorrhea rates are 30 times higher in African Americans than in Whites. (old CDC study from 2000)) - https://archive.fo/Yf1Ks
https://archive.fo/Vd8kh (The average H-1B immigrant is less intelligent and qualified than the average American.) -https://archive.is/i81rq
https://archive.fo/DLQJK (Women who claim to be willing to date any race are lying and are just as discriminatory as women with explicit racial preferences.) [SSRN study wasn’t able to be archived]
https://archive.fo/BVIQw (Melanin concentration may directly correlate with aggression.) - https://archive.is/NmfF3
https://archive.fo/QFsNR (As many as 50% of rural Afghani men engage in pedophilia.) - https://archive.fo/xYjss -https://archive.fo/5VSpw
https://archive.fo/e5SVN ("A rough estimate reveals that close to half of everybody living in the Arab world is inbred.") - https://archive.is/SFnej
https://archive.fo/3K5BN (Europeans and Asians are subject to more recent evolution than Africans.) -https://archive.is/zX5p9
https://archive.fo/74dsc (Immigration has reduced the average skill level of Americans.) - https://archive.is/JwhM7
https://archive.fo/lj5wR (Of the 30 most deadly mass shootings in America, non-whites committed 36%, a slight overrepresentation.) - https://archive.is/5wE1S - Comments by u/cheesemanwub - https://archive.fo/UMzUr -https://archive.fo/ZiEwP - https://archive.fo/2maAy -https://www.theroot.com/articles/culture/2011/03/Black_childabuse_statistics_report_debunks_bias_assumptions.html [404] - https://archive.fo/sqHRT - https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/data/nvsr/nvsr61/nvsr61_01.pdf#page=8 [Unable to archive] - https://researchbasics.education.uconn.edu [Just linked to homepage(?)] -http://psychology.uwo.ca/faculty/rushtonpdfs/ravensiii.pdf [404] - https://archive.fo/lxtL5 - https://archive.fo/lxwbV- https://archive.fo/Cd6m1 - https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=2625893 [Another 404] -https://archive.fo/75rTC - https://archive.fo/wMM1p - https://archive.fo/9hWut - https://archive.fo/aUTla -https://archive.fo/oHosX - https://archive.fo/GBJp6 -http://psychology.uwo.ca/faculty/rushtonpdfs/RandRProgressIntell2003.pdf [404] - https://archive.fo/tCHeH -https://archive.fo/LRfBq [unfortunately none of the damn graphs work in archive] - https://archive.fo/X4sFo -https://archive.fo/haFoY - https://archive.fo/6Zrqy - https://archive.fo/GTJEZ - https://archive.fo/h5rjP -https://psycnet.apa.org/search?fa=main.doiLanding&doi=10.1037%2F0022-006X.76.5.893 [unable to archive] -https://archive.fo/piPMT - https://archive.fo/oeHnw - https://archive.fo/3aVLN -https://www.amazon.com/Handbook-Crime-Correlates-Lee-Ellis/dp/0123736129 [Didn’t really see a reason to archive this] - https://archive.fo/qCDL6 - https://archive.fo/RyWVd - https://archive.fo/C6hMy - https://archive.fo/gZBeR -https://archive.fo/HPPiq - https://archive.fo/w7n1y - https://archive.fo/9hhRr - https://archive.fo/5l4Qv -https://archive.fo/PTT8j - https://archive.fo/0DfjB - https://archive.fo/ZcXVv - https://archive.fo/IbzAs -https://archive.fo/41ye6 - https://archive.fo/wQ2kz - https://archive.fo/fhdqi - https://archive.fo/LEdXR
- Http://Www.Amazon.Com/Origins-Worlds-Mythologies-Michael-Witzel/Dp/0199812853[Again, Didn’t See A Reason To Archive]
[There is still a ton of links posted by u/cheesemanwub in the post on mass shootings]
Here is a better quality image http://i.imgur.com/o7as8IF.png
These is the book list I was able to read:
In Hand: Broken Windows (Can't find specific book)
Stack:
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How to stay alive in the woods
The Lying Brain
The Psychology of Memory
False Confessions (Not sure specific book)
The U.S Army Survival Manual (Not sure specific book)
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The Measure of Madness
The Book of Basic Machines: The U.S. Navy Training Manual
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The R Document
The Goal: A Process of Ongoing Improvement
Deception (Not sure of specific book)
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Polyurethane Technology (Not sure of specific book)
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Polyamide (Something)
Crime and Public Policy (Not sure of specific book)
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Spectacle: An Optimist's Handbook
(This is from memory, forgive me if a mess up some terminology)
There are Three fundamental problems. Two are psychometric and one is conceptual.
Personality is dimensional. We aren't extroverted or not, we have a level of extroversion varying from low (maybe zero) to high (as in we won't shut the fuck up). The M-B dichotomizes it. It turns the continuum into a binary statement. This cuts out the variability that is required for measuring the variable. The majority of these statistics are based on correlation. Correlation is standardized covariance. Without variance, there's no convariance. If it doesn't vary we can't work out the correlations. This tanks it's test-retest for anyone who isn't at the extreme end of one of the dimensions. This is part of why it is fundamentally unreliable.
Secondly, many of the dimension are bipolar (the continuum is measuring two things, rather than one, as in manic to depressed). Most of the statistics used in psychology assume that you are measuring something that is unipolar. That is, it runs on a continuum from low to high (say from 0-100).
The M-B puts multiple constructs within the same continuum. For example introversion - extroversion. Other personality measures that work (like the NEO-3, or the IPIP) suggest that introversion and extroversion are not the presence or absence of the same thing, but that they are two different constructs. Conceptually, the M-B continuums don't make sense. Are thinking and feeling the opposite of each other? High functioning people tend to do both well, low function people tend to do neither well.
Because the scales in the M-B is running from high to low to high again in something else in this bipolar fashion (think of it as 100 to 0 to 100), they violates the assumptions of most of the statistical tests that would would use to calculate it's basic properties or use it to make judgments about people.
More disconcertingly, it's based on Jungian theory which is more batshit crazy and obsolete that Freud. I can't make that argument as well, because no one bothered to teach me Jung, because noone bothers to teach Jung anymore, for the same reasons we don't teach phrenology. Freud tends to get taught from a historical perspective.
Lilienfeld does at great summary of the research in Psychological Science in the Courtroom. He argues that the four factor version probably meets the Daubert standard, but the 16 factor version does not. I would argue that I really wouldn't want to have to argue making a decision based on it in court.
Mind hunter is a great book if you like hearing stories of a profiler’s exploits.
But John Douglas, Robert Ressler, and Ann Burgess DID kinda write the book on this subject.
Sexual Homicide: Patterns and Motives
It presents the findings from their years studying, and interviewing convicted murderers. It’s full of statistics and tables of data. Some of the material is kinda dry, it’s difficult to make statistical analysis of questionnaires into a page turner. But, it does show how they began to be able to ‘profile’ an unsub. They put in a lot of work into studying crime scene and circumstance of the crime and correlating the background the actual criminal that CREATED that crime scene.
It reads like a college textbook. It’s worth a look.
It’s a textbook, but it’s a damn good one.
“Criminal Profiling” by Brent Turvey
39% of all cop killers are Black, although Blacks are only 12% of the population. Source: https://www.fbi.gov/about-us/cjis/ucr/leoka/2013/officers-feloniously-killed/felonious_topic_page_2013.pdf#page=4
93% of Black men who are murdered are killed by other Black men. Source: http://www.bjs.gov/content/pub/pdf/bvvc.pdf#page=3
Blacks commit 56% of all robberies, despite being only 12% of the population. Source: https://www.fbi.gov/about-us/cjis/ucr/crime-in-the-u.s/2013/crime-in-the-u.s.-2013/tables/table-43
Blacks commit 50% of all murders, despite being only 12% of the population. Source: https://www.fbi.gov/about-us/cjis/ucr/crime-in-the-u.s/2013/crime-in-the-u.s.-2013/tables/table-43
Young Black men kill 14 times more often than young White men. Source: http://ideas.time.com/2013/08/22/viewpoint-dont-ignore-race-in-christopher-lanes-murder/#ixzz2ciWBxj00
Blacks are seven times more likely than Whites to commit murder. Source: http://www.colorofcrime.com/2005/10/the-color-of-crime-2005/
The percentage of Blacks in a city, not poverty, is the best predictor of crime. Source: http://www.unz.com/article/race-and-crime-in-america/
In New York City, 1% of people arrested for shootings were White, while 74% were Black. Source: http://www.nyc.gov/html/nypd/downloads/pdf/analysis_and_planning/enforcement_report_year_end_2014.pdf#page=17
In New York City, 43% of people arrested for rape were Black. Source: http://www.nyc.gov/html/nypd/downloads/pdf/analysis_and_planning/enforcement_report_year_end_2014.pdf#page=8
In New York City, 61% of people arrested for robbery were Black. Source: http://www.nyc.gov/html/nypd/downloads/pdf/analysis_and_planning/enforcement_report_year_end_2014.pdf#page=10
67% of people arrested for gun crime in London are Black, although Blacks are only 12% of the population. Source: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/crime/7856787/Violent-inner-city-crime-the-figures-and-a-question-of-race.html
Black men in London are only 12% of the population, but commit 32% of rape. Source: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/crime/7856787/Violent-inner-city-crime-the-figures-and-a-question-of-race.html
A Black person in Britain is twice as likely to be in jail as to be in university. Source: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/1449468/Twice-as-many-Blacks-in-jail-as-at-university.html
Blacks commit more violent crime against Whites than against other Blacks. Source: http://www.colorofcrime.com/2005/10/the-color-of-crime-2005/
Blacks are 39 times more likely to commit a violent crime against Whites than vice versa. Source: http://www.colorofcrime.com/2005/10/the-color-of-crime-2005/
Blacks are 2 times more likely to commit a hate crime against Whites than vice versa. Source: http://www.colorofcrime.com/2005/10/the-color-of-crime-2005/
Blacks are three times more likely than Whites to commit White-collar crime (fraud, bribery, racketeering, embezzlement). Source: http://www.colorofcrime.com/2005/10/the-color-of-crime-2005/
Areas with more Black people have higher rates of crime. Source: http://www.amazon.com/Handbook-Crime-Correlates-Lee-Ellis/dp/0123736129
I have more, just let me know
My reading recommendations include, mainly, a lot of textbooks! Unlike a lot of the true crime novels, I've found that criminal psychology, criminology, victimology, forensics and other academic textbooks and research journals are generally far less sensationalistic than the true crime novels tend to be. here are some of the ones that I highly recommend.
Serial Murderers and Their Victims by Eric W Hinkley is a fantastic resource for the latest studies concerning serial murder, focusing on both the perpetrators and their victims. Now in its seventh iteration, this text has some of the most up to date statistics on serial killers in the US and worldwide.
Serial Killers: The Method and Madness of Monsters by Peter Vronsky is another similarly great book full of real life case studies of serial and spree killers and delves into the motives behind such aberrant behavior.
The Encyclopedia of Serial Killers by Michael Newton has entries on hundreds of convicted serial killers.
The Serial Killer Files: The Who, What, Where, How, and Why of the World's Most Terrifying Murderers by Harold Schechter undoubtedly possesses a sensational bent, but I can't deny that the book is certainly thrilling to read in a morbid way, and I think any fan of true crime will like it very much.
Female Serial Killers: How and Why Women Become Monsters by Peter Vronsky explores the rare phenomenon of female serial killers.
Sexual Homicide: Patterns and Motives by Ressler, Burgess and Douglas is an important and easily-read psychological textbook on the sexual impulses that lead to violence.
Sexual Murder: Catathymic and Compulsive Homicides by Louis B Schlesinger is a similar book by a prominent forensic psychologist.
Sex-Related Homicide and Death Investigation: Practical and Clinical Perspectives, Second Edition: Practical Aspects of Criminal and Forensic Investigations by Vernon J Geberth is a manual for law enforcement professionals investigating sexually-motivated homicides by a renowned former-detective. The images and case studies are directly from the author's archive of case files. I will warn readers that some of the content in this book is highly disturbing, even for I, a person with an interest in the psychology of serial killers. All in all, a fascinating book for those who can stomach it.
Rather than downvote you, I'll just point you toward a book that is likely going to answer your questions better than most here.
Scientific Paranormal Investigation by Benjamin Radford. Go forth, read and learn.
Budget deficit has a link to the cost of blacks in america included.
US education scores is actually PISA scores by race.
For homicide rates, you can obviously look at FBI crime statistics table 43.
For the correlation of whether or not blacks commit more crime than whites, you can look at Ellis, Beaver and Wright (2009) where they looked at whether or not blacks commit more crime than whites in 113 studies. Turned out they did in all 113.
For how well it correlates with violent crime, you can look at the New Century Foundation’s report “The Color of Crime”. They analyzed the violent crime rates of 50 U.S. states and D.C for the year 2005. The analysis found that state violent crime rates correlated at .81 with the percentage of the population that was Black or Hispanic, .37 with the state’s percentage of high-school drop outs, .36 with the states poverty rate, and .35 with the state’s unemployment rate.
The only thing that I miss is the gun ownership and murder correlation. I can't seem to find that anymore.
i seem to remember some instances in books such as "from crime scene to court" and i also believe that "Forensic engineering reconstruction of accidents" may also be of use for you.
Blacks are overrepresented in serial killings, and this overrepresentation is increasing. Source: http://maamodt.asp.radford.edu/Serial%20Killer%20Information%20Center/Serial%20Killer%20Statistics.pdf#page=3
93% of Black men who are murdered are killed by other Black men. Source: http://www.bjs.gov/content/pub/pdf/bvvc.pdf#page=3
Blacks commit 56% of all robberies, despite being only 12% of the population. Source: https://www.fbi.gov/about-us/cjis/ucr/crime-in-the-u.s/2013/crime-in-the-u.s.-2013/tables/table-43
Blacks commit 50% of all murders, despite being only 12% of the population. Source: https://www.fbi.gov/about-us/cjis/ucr/crime-in-the-u.s/2013/crime-in-the-u.s.-2013/tables/table-43
Despite making up less than 12% of the US population, Blacks commit 1 in every 3 rapes. Source: https://www.fbi.gov/about-us/cjis/ucr/crime-in-the-u.s/2013/crime-in-the-u.s.-2013/tables/table-43
Young Black men kill 14 times more often than young White men. Source: http://ideas.time.com/2013/08/22/viewpoint-dont-ignore-race-in-christopher-lanes-murder/#ixzz2ciWBxj00
Africans have higher rates of a gene associated with violence. Source: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1913922/
Blacks are seven times more likely than Whites to commit murder. Source: http://www.colorofcrime.com/2005/10/the-color-of-crime-2005/
The percentage of Blacks in a city, not poverty, is the best predictor of crime. Source: http://www.unz.com/article/race-and-crime-in-america/
Blacks are 600% more likely than non-Blacks to commit murder. Source: http://www.unz.com/article/race-and-crime-in-america/
In New York City, 1% of people arrested for shootings were White, while 74% were Black. Source: http://www.nyc.gov/html/nypd/downloads/pdf/analysis_and_planning/enforcement_report_year_end_2014.pdf#page=17
In New York City, 43% of people arrested for rape were Black. Source: http://www.nyc.gov/html/nypd/downloads/pdf/analysis_and_planning/enforcement_report_year_end_2014.pdf#page=8
In New York City, 61% of people arrested for robbery were Black. Source: http://www.nyc.gov/html/nypd/downloads/pdf/analysis_and_planning/enforcement_report_year_end_2014.pdf#page=10
Blacks have lower emotional intelligence than Whites. Source: http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/ijsa.12069/abstract
67% of people arrested for gun crime in London are Black, although Blacks are only 12% of the population. Source: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/crime/7856787/Violent-inner-city-crime-the-figures-and-a-question-of-race.html
Black men in London are only 12% of the population, but commit 32% of rape. Source: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/crime/7856787/Violent-inner-city-crime-the-figures-and-a-question-of-race.html
1 in four South African men has admitted to rape. Source: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/africa/8107039.stm
Blacks are 90% more likely than Whites to be psychopathic. Source: http://psycnet.apa.org/?&fa=main.doiLanding&doi=10.1037/0022-006X.76.5.893
Blacks commit more violent crime against Whites than against other Blacks. Source: http://www.colorofcrime.com/2005/10/the-color-of-crime-2005/
Blacks are 39 times more likely to commit a violent crime against Whites than vice versa. Source: http://www.colorofcrime.com/2005/10/the-color-of-crime-2005/
Areas with more Black people have higher rates of crime. Source: http://www.amazon.com/Handbook-Crime-Correlates-Lee-Ellis/dp/0123736129
Blacks are more reckless than Whites. Source: http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0191886901000290
85% of crime between Blacks and Whites is committed by Blacks. Source: http://www.colorofcrime.com/2005/10/the-color-of-crime-2005/
In just two years, more blacks were killed by other blacks than died from 80 years of lynching. Source: http://www.breitbart.com/big-government/2015/11/28/5-devastating-facts-black-black-crime/
Blacks are just 13% of the American population but have committed half of all murders for the last 30 years. Source: http://www.breitbart.com/big-government/2015/11/28/5-devastating-facts-black-black-crime/
Blacks are 60-80% more likely than Whites to lie about how much crime they commit. Source: http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S019188690200363X
The South African murder rate is the 10th highest in the world. White farmers are killed 4x more often than the general population. Source: http://www.nationalreview.com/article/398136/end-south-africa-josh-gelernter
Read this
Book recommendations:
Geographical Profiling
School Shooters
Intro to Criminal Profiling
The first place to look would be Law and Human Behavior, which is the official journal of AP-LS. Others include Psychology, Crime & Law (EAPL's journal) and Psychology, Public Policy, and Law (an APA journal). Also, JARMAC, a relatively new journal, has had a decent amount of Psych/Law content recently as well.
As far as what to read, it really depends on what topic you're interested in. Your best bet might be to first pick up a Psych/Law textbook to get an overview of what's out there. There are a few good ones, but I'm partial to this one.
I want my eventual career to be in forensic psychology so this is pretty embarrassing.
It's more than $5 so surprise me please :) Thanks for the contest! <3
The following list are books from retired members of the FBI Behavioral Science Unit - Jack Crawford's real-life equivalents:
Sexual Homicide - Patterns and Motives
Journey Into Darkness
Mindhunter
Anatomy of Motive
Whoever Fights Monsters
Dark Dreams
All of them go into detail in describing how cases were analyzed to develop profiles of unknown killers, the different categories of killers, and how the thought processes of a serial killer work. It's not that they are evil incarnate or unpredictable violent beings - there is usually some kind of logic there that makes perfect sense once you realize that they just aren't playing with the same set of rules as everyone else.
If you just want to talk about manipulation:
Social Engineering: The Art of Human Hacking
https://www.amazon.com/Sexual-Homicide-Patterns-Motives-Paperback-ebook/dp/B001GY1FSK/ref=nodl_ basically the first real analysis of serial killers written in ‘85. I read about Bundy saying it was the best analysis he had read.
I think you should definitely buy one of those forensic psychology books. I picked this one. I think being a forensic psychologist is amazing and takes an extremely strong/talented individual. I really was looking into it but I realized I didn't want to pursue higher education after a Bachelors.
I really need this brush for my makeup. I think it makes a huge difference in application to the waterline/eyes.
Code: woop-di-woop
I recommend you read this: http://www.amazon.ca/Unfair-The-Science-Criminal-Injustice/dp/0770437761
This story will be an even bigger heartbreaker when you realize that type of judiciary misconduct goes on (on a smaller level) every single day in the United States.
I am a forensic psychology major so I'm super excited to see what everyone recommends for you! I love reading psychology books!
this book has been recommended to me so many times! I just started reading it and it's very good so far!
I also really enjoyed this book on criminal profiling which is a subject that fascinates me.
Shaynoodle is damn sexy!
https://archive.fo/lj5wR (Of the 30 most deadly mass shootings in America, non-whites committed 36%, a slight overrepresentation.)
Apologies for the lack of descriptions for each link. I was in a hurry at the time of archiving all of this, but I did save his comments. I can post these too, if anyone wants.
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For starters, https://www.amazon.com/Handbook-Crime-Correlates-Lee-Ellis/dp/0123736129
Then the nuclear hand-grenade. https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007%2Fs12552-016-9164-y
Europeans and Asians are subject to more recent evolution than Africans. Source: http://www.nytimes.com/2010/07/20/science/20adapt.html
48% of African Americans have Herpes Simplex Virus. Source: http://www.cdc.gov/stdconference/2000/media/AfAmericans2000.htm
Gonorrhea rates are 30 times higher in African Americans than in Whites. Source: http://www.cdc.gov/stdconference/2000/media/AfAmericans2000.htm
Police hesitate longer to shoot Black suspects than White suspects. Source: http://link.springer.com/article/10.1007%2Fs11292-014-9204-9
Over 100 White women are raped or sexually assaulted by Black men every day in the United States. Source: http://archive.frontpagemag.com/readArticle.aspx?ARTID=26368
Blacks are overrepresented in serial killings, and this overrepresentation is increasing. Source: http://maamodt.asp.radford.edu/Serial%20Killer%20Information%20Center/Serial%20Killer%20Statistics.pdf#page=3
Blacks are overrepresented among child abusers, and this isn’t due to biased reporting. Source: http://www.theroot.com/articles/culture/2011/03/Black_childabuse_statistics_report_debunks_bias_assumptions.html
39% of all cop killers are Black, although Blacks are only 12% of the population. Source: https://www.fbi.gov/about-us/cjis/ucr/leoka/2013/officers-feloniously-killed/felonious_topic_page_2013.pdf#page=4
73% of Black babies are born out of wedlock. Source: http://www.cdc.gov/nchs/data/nvsr/nvsr61/nvsr61_01.pdf#page=8
The average Black has an IQ score 1 standard deviation (15 IQ points) lower than the average White. Source: http://www.gifted.uconn.edu/siegle/research/correlation/intelligence.pdf
The Black-White IQ gap in America is equal to the gap in South Africa, even though SA is ruled by Blacks. Source: http://psychology.uwo.ca/faculty/rushtonpdfs/ravensiii.pdf
The Black-White IQ gap exists even when both races are raised in identical environments. Source: http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/016028969290028P
93% of Black men who are murdered are killed by other Black men. Source: http://www.bjs.gov/content/pub/pdf/bvvc.pdf#page=3
The Black-White IQ gap still exists and has not decreased in size. Source: http://emilkirkegaard.dk/en/wp-content/uploads/The%20totality%20of%20available%20evidence%20shows%20the%20race%20IQ%20gap%20still%20remains.pdf
70% of Black children are born out of wedlock. Source: http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=2625893
Blacks commit 56% of all robberies, despite being only 12% of the population. Source: https://www.fbi.gov/about-us/cjis/ucr/crime-in-the-u.s/2013/crime-in-the-u.s.-2013/tables/table-43
Blacks commit 50% of all murders, despite being only 12% of the population. Source: https://www.fbi.gov/about-us/cjis/ucr/crime-in-the-u.s/2013/crime-in-the-u.s.-2013/tables/table-43
Despite making up less than 12% of the US population, Blacks commit 1 in every 3 rapes. Source: https://www.fbi.gov/about-us/cjis/ucr/crime-in-the-u.s/2013/crime-in-the-u.s.-2013/tables/table-43
Young Black men kill 14 times more often than young White men. Source: http://ideas.time.com/2013/08/22/viewpoint-dont-ignore-race-in-christopher-lanes-murder/#ixzz2ciWBxj00
Africans have higher rates of a gene associated with violence. Source: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1913922/
Black women are four times more likely to be overweight than White women. Source: http://sf.oxfordjournals.org/content/89/3/807.abstract
Blacks are seven times more likely than Whites to commit murder. Source: http://www.colorofcrime.com/2005/10/the-color-of-crime-2005/
Students of all races perform worse in schools with more Black students. Source: http://www.usnews.com/news/articles/2015/09/24/study-finds-students-underperform-in-schools-with-large-Black-populations
Blacks have an average brain size of 1267 cubic cm, compared to Whites at 1347 cm. Source: http://psychology.uwo.ca/faculty/rushtonpdfs/RandRProgressIntell2003.pdf
97% of White men refuse to date Black women. Source: http://sf.oxfordjournals.org/content/89/3/807.abstract
The percentage of Blacks in a city, not poverty, is the best predictor of crime. Source: http://www.unz.com/article/race-and-crime-in-america/
Blacks are 600% more likely than non-Blacks to commit murder. Source: http://www.unz.com/article/race-and-crime-in-america/
In New York City, 1% of people arrested for shootings were White, while 74% were Black. Source: http://www.nyc.gov/html/nypd/downloads/pdf/analysis_and_planning/enforcement_report_year_end_2014.pdf#page=17
In New York City, 43% of people arrested for rape were Black. Source: http://www.nyc.gov/html/nypd/downloads/pdf/analysis_and_planning/enforcement_report_year_end_2014.pdf#page=8
In New York City, 61% of people arrested for robbery were Black. Source: http://www.nyc.gov/html/nypd/downloads/pdf/analysis_and_planning/enforcement_report_year_end_2014.pdf#page=10
Blacks have lower emotional intelligence than Whites. Source: http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/ijsa.12069/abstract
In Canada, Blacks comprise 2% of the population but 6% of prisoners. Source: http://www.csc-scc.gc.ca/research/r144-eng.shtml
Blacks are more likely than Whites to be narcissistic. Source: http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0092656611000912
67% of people arrested for gun crime in London are Black, although Blacks are only 12% of the population. Source: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/crime/7856787/Violent-inner-city-crime-the-figures-and-a-question-of-race.html
Black men in London are only 12% of the population, but commit 32% of rape. Source: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/crime/7856787/Violent-inner-city-crime-the-figures-and-a-question-of-race.html
1 in four South African men has admitted to rape. Source: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/africa/8107039.stm
Blacks are 90% more likely than Whites to be psychopathic. Source: http://psycnet.apa.org/?&amp;fa=main.doiLanding&amp;doi=10.1037/0022-006X.76.5.893
A Black person in Britain is twice as likely to be in jail as to be in university. Source: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/1449468/Twice-as-many-Blacks-in-jail-as-at-university.html
70% of Ethiopian women report having been physically or sexually abused. Source: http://www.thelancet.com/pdfs/journals/lancet/PIIS0140-6736%2806%2969523-8.pdf
Blacks are more prone to psychopathy and less capable of empathy than Whites. Source: http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0191886901000290
Blacks commit more violent crime against Whites than against other Blacks. Source: http://www.colorofcrime.com/2005/10/the-color-of-crime-2005/
Blacks are 39 times more likely to commit a violent crime against Whites than vice versa. Source: http://www.colorofcrime.com/2005/10/the-color-of-crime-2005/
Blacks are 136 times more likely to commit a violent crime against Whites than vice versa. Source: http://www.colorofcrime.com/2005/10/the-color-of-crime-2005/
Blacks are 2 times more likely to commit a hate crime against Whites than vice versa. Source: http://www.colorofcrime.com/2005/10/the-color-of-crime-2005/
Blacks are three times more likely than Whites to commit White-collar crime (fraud, bribery, racketeering, embezzlement). Source: http://www.colorofcrime.com/2005/10/the-color-of-crime-2005/
Areas with more Black people have higher rates of crime. Source: http://www.amazon.com/Handbook-Crime-Correlates-Lee-Ellis/dp/0123736129
Blacks assign less value to marriage than Whites. Source: http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0191886901000290
Blacks are significantly less likely than Whites to have harmonious or satisfying marriages. Source: http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0191886901000290
Blacks are more likely to default on loans than other races. Source: http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0191886901000290
Blacks are 80% more likely than Whites to neglect their children. Source: http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0191886901000290
Blacks are more likely to have ADHD than Whites. Source: http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0191886901000290
Blacks have less moral understanding that Whites. Source: http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0191886901000290
Blacks are more reckless than Whites. Source: http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0191886901000290
Blacks are twice as likely to subject their children to severe violence than Whites. Source: http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0191886901000290
Black men are four times more likely to beat their wives than White men. Source: http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0191886901000290
Black women are more than twice as likely as White women to abuse their husbands. Source: http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0191886901000290
Black youth are two and a half times as likely as White youth to have raped someone. Source: http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0191886901000290
In London, Blacks are six times more likely than Whites to be imprisoned. Source: http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0191886901000290
Blacks are more likely to kill their spouses than other races. Source: http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0191886901000290
Blacks are 50% more likely to cheat on their spouses than Whites. Source: http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0191886901000290
Oh really? I had no idea. Found it on amazon.ca here
Not so much a general psychology book, but I enjoyed this one from one of my forensic psychology courses.
Measure of Madness
http://www.amazon.com/The-Measure-Madness-Disturbed-Disturbing/dp/0806531053
BTW, it you are going to be a psych major understand that you are going to graduate school if you want to make any money in the field.
edit: here is another one that I was supposed to read but never got around to. I hear it is good
On Human Nature
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0674016386/ref=oh_details_o08_s00_i00?ie=UTF8&amp;psc=1
edit edit: another one that came to mind, good short read
Letters to a Young Therapist
http://www.amazon.com/Letters-Young-Therapist-Art-Mentoring/dp/0465057675/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&amp;ie=UTF8&amp;qid=1374088838&amp;sr=1-1&amp;keywords=letters+to+a+young+therapist
Thank you! Last book I read:
http://www.amazon.com/Inside-Criminal-Mind-Revised-Updated/dp/0804139903/ref=sr_1_1_twi_2?s=books&amp;ie=UTF8&amp;qid=1417035483&amp;sr=1-1&amp;keywords=inside+the+criminal+mind
:)
>very little of any of these attempted to explore why this is
You didn't ask for you that, you asked for any evidence that race had a correlation that SES and other factors didn't. I don't have to prove to you that race is solely responsible for crime, that would be goofy, and I don't think anyone believes it. I believe I just have to prove that race is a factor. If I radically misread what you wrote, please let me know.
>Boiling the statistics purely down to race when these same sources explain the issue based on socioeconomic terms seems disingenuous and simplistic.
Again, the race link had a higher correlation than SES, I didn't write or manipulate the papers.
>If you were to show me a paper that clearly demonstrates an inherent correlation between proportion of black people in a society and crime across all countries
I have a book that shows exactly that. I think it would be unfair to force you to buy it though, so I'll see if I can find some of the studies it contains online. Information from Japan shows that the highest crime and offence rate is held by Africans.
In England, government data shows that Blacks make up around 14% of criminals even though Blacks only account for around 3.5% of their population.
>I've yet to be shown any evidence that IQ inherently varies between groups across countries discrete from culture. If you had such evidence I would be open to reading that too.
What exactly are you looking for? Are you saying that you are looking for I.Q. tests that still have a racial gap after SES has been taken into account?
You should read the book Unfair. It might shake your faith in the justice system a bit!
Spy The Lie
The Art of Profiling
What Every Body Is Saying
and, Criminal Profiling: An Introductory Guide
I read those when I began my journey down the CID rabbit hole. I also read 100 Deadly Skills, which was not directly related, but fun to keep in the back of the head.
Very interesting comments. Talking to someone with first hand observations is so much more enlightening than someone who has merely read about this from a textbook.
There are a few pieces of your reply that I wanted to respond to. One was where you mentioned "wallowing in humility and self-loathing" (aka "Zero State" Thinking) and the other was "after a few years in prison learning about what lead to the life choices..."
Both of those statements I agree with...and I agree with them even more strongly when considered together. If all a person does is sit in prison and express remorse, they will emerge with a well practiced and highly polished way of expressing remorse...but not necessarily changed thinking. On the other hand, someone who actually focuses on the choices that lead them to commit their crime will have spent...or you could say "invested" their time in preventing the main cause of recidivism (committing crime). Asking which is "most important" is somewhat like asking which wheel of a bicycle is most important. They both are, but education is a mass application solution. Curriculum can be designed and delivered with group testing to confirm absorption. But changed thinking is much harder to gauge because it requires closer individual assessment due to the fact that the participants have the "inertia" of their patterned thinking fighting against change....and hence are more inclined to say what they think their instructors wish to hear as this allows recognition of achievement without exerting the difficult effort of actual change. This is another of Samenow's thinking errors called "Failure to Endure Adversity."
Finally, I'd like to offer you a link to a summary of the most common thinking errors:
http://www.recoveryabt.org/resources/groupMaterials/Thinking%20Errors%20List.pdf
I think you will find it a very eye opening exercise to just observe the students and see how those same patterns come up again and again and again. When I first read vol 2 of his book series "the Criminal Personality" I couldn't put it down.
https://www.amazon.com/Criminal-Personality-Change-Process-II/dp/0876687710/ref=sr_1_5?s=books&amp;ie=UTF8&amp;qid=1501019221&amp;sr=1-5
Alright so sci-hub is back and I decided to address Color of Crime in a blogpost here sometime - its irrelevant to the discussion though so I won't bother. Except for one thing.
In the article, a simple correlation coefficient - by the way, I'd like to emphasize that no information was given on how it was calculated, whether it was via a regression analysis or otherwise. There's no information on statistical significance of the results, nothing. But anyway, this isn't even the proper way to calculate these things in criminology - specifically, correlation analyses don't allow us to predict relationships, making this point worthless. The better thing to do would be to do a multivariate regression and see if the % black indicator would be, say, an amalgamation of all the given results. Either way, this is a questionable analysis given it's obviously biased source.
Next is an attempted point about population density lacking significance as a predictor - the problem is, the source cited is the Handbook of Crime Correlates (which, might I add, is made by Lee Ellis - a known person attempting to say black folk have higher testosterone, ergo crime, and Kevin MacDonald, one of those 'sociobiologist' types, and a John Wright, who I don't know much about). This is a very, very terrible source to cite - for one, the paragraph he links is little more than a gish gallop of sources which they make claims of in regards to population density. It's implied to be an overview of the literature, but there's little information on how they surveyed the literature, or whether the studies that came to a certain conclusion were better or worse. If you don't believe me, here's the book - head to page 53 to view it, and page 59 for a discussion of the tables. I'm not going to bother overviewing this due to that - it'd take far too long and, quite frankly, isn't worth it. Not to mention how the studies are only from the 80s and 70s largely, which, for a book released in 2009, is laughably evident of cherry picking.
Instead, I'll link this study - which they never included - which pointed out significant caveats - such that the relationship ultimately depended on how crime functioned given its relation to the population, as well as how the FBI ultimately led to crime calculations being in jurisdictions with nonexistent data. While I disagree with the study due to the UCR's usage, as shown before, this was never cited, nor are these caveats mentioned in the review, showing its inadequacy for any sort of academic usage.
The next point is that some studies found controlling for certain variables had a weaker effect on black crime than white crime. Ironically, this would be evidence against a genetic explanation, since it strongly suggests an environmental confounding variable, as we would expect the genetic explanation to have an equivalent environmental depressant (but with there still being a large gap after adjustment). Let's evaluate the studies anyway.
The first study uses the questionable Uniform Crime Reports. But anyway, ignoring this, the point is misleading since this was only for structural disadvantage, rather than for population size and structure. Further, only residential instability and younger male population had significant differences between populations. However, admittedly, in Chicago the significance differences did change, with 'spatial lag (dealing with geography),' % Hispanic, entropy, and structural disadvantage being significant predictors.
The second also uses the questionable Uniform Crime Reports - it, hilariously in spite of this, found no effect of percent black on violent crime arrests rates, although one on offense rates, which would pretty strongly go against any genetic hypothesis they could pull out of their asses. Of course, the results do support what he says.
The next complaint is 'three cherry-picked cities,' which is a pretty ignorant way to dismiss them since they contain thousands of individuals, and likewise one would have to try to explain the low black crime rate. Ironically, viewing the cities listed in the original article's Wikipedia pages, it can be seen that they do have ties to anti-slavery movements and such in the past, although there isn't enough on them to gauge whether selection bias could result in this. It may be the case, although evidence would have to be provided for this. I'd also like to use this opportunity to point out that Bermuda, in spite of being relatively evenly split between black and white folk, has less than a thousand crimes in 2016 with the trend being for them to decrease. There is also exceedingly few people in prison there, suggesting minimal conviction (see here and here for concerns of racism in Bermuda), and with the Bermudan government pointing out that there's minimal recidivism there. Not sure exactly how this can be explained at all by selection bias.
https://www.amazon.com/gp/aw/d/0123860296/ref=dbs_a_w_dp_0123860296
https://www.amazon.com/Criminal-Profiling-Introduction-Behavioral-Evidence/dp/0123852439
Why do people rape?
Most rapes are carried out without a weapon. The most common weapon used, when a weapon is involved, is a knife. Firearms are rarely used in the commission of a rape.
Those are the FBI’s three archetypes for criminal profiles for sex criminals.
This book is amazing, though a bit dense. I'd recommend anything by John Douglas, the original psychological profiler, but this book is all about the studies of and interviews with the killers. Basically all you'd ever want to know about the topic.
Here's a quote from a textbook used by forensic psychologist:
"Sexologists had long dismissed voyeurs and all other fetishists as harmless, shy fellows who seldom if ever were dangerous. However, the fact is that, investigatively speaking, complaints about voyeurism must be treated as very serious offenses. The author cannot state than all voyeurs will become rapists or lust murderers; however, I can emphatically state that, in all of the lust murders that I have investigated, and/or consulted on, the offender had a history of voyeurism activities"