Start a new thread with that question, since you just moved the goal posts.
You didn't actually read it.
I did.
But for your ADD;
Since Africans (where they live now is irrelevant) commit crime at a disproportionate rate to their white counterparts, assuming that genetic factors play about the same role in all persons with the genetic trait, blacks by default have the genetic trait more than whites, Asians and other races. Latin Americans fall just behind blacks.
From UT research:
What turns people into criminals? In the longstanding debate over
nature vs. nurture,
new research published in the journal
Criminology suggests that genes play a key role in determining who leads a life of crime and who stays on the straight and narrow.
The research, conducted by University of Texas at Dallas criminologist J.C. Barnes and colleagues, analyzed the genetic and environmental influences on criminal traits of 4,000 people.
The researchers discovered a strong link between genes and criminality.
The scientists based their research on the 1993 theory of Duke professor
Dr. Terrie Moffitt that says people will generally fall into three different types: life-course persistent offenders (lifelong criminals), adolescent-limited offenders (who grow out of their bad behavior), and law-abiding abstainers (non-criminals).
According to the paper:
- For life-course persistent offenders, genes influenced criminal behavior more than the environment.
- For abstainers, it was roughly an equal split: genetic factors played a large role and so too did the environment.
- For adolescent-limited offenders, the environment was the most important factor.
"If we're showing that genes have an overwhelming influence on who gets put onto the life-course persistent pathway, then that would suggest we need to know which genes are involved and, at the same time, how they're interacting with the environment, so we can tailor interventions," Dr. Barnes said.
But don't expect police to start locking people up based on their genomes anytime soon. Researchers say there is no single gene to predict criminality; there are likely to be hundreds, if not thousands of genes that will affect your likelihood of being involved in crime. And even then, it may only increase that likelihood by 1 percent.
But that doesn't mean the genetic link should be taken lightly, Barnes points out.
"Honestly, I hope that when people read this, they take issue and start to debate it and raise criticisms, because that means people are considering it and thinking about it," Barnes said.
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From Wiki
The frequency distribution of variants of the MAOA gene differs between ethnic groups.
[17][18] 59% of African-American men, 56% of Maori men, 54% of Chinese men, and 34% of Caucasian men carry the 3R allele.
5.5% of African-American men, 0.1% of Caucasian men, and 0.00067% of Asian men carry the 2R allele.
An association between the 2R allele of the VNTR region of the gene and an increase in the likelihood of committing serious crime or violence has been found.
[6][5][7] (emphasis mine)
Classification of Hispanics The UCR classifies most Hispanics into the "white" category. The NCVS classifies some Hispanic criminals as "white" and some as "other race". The victim categories for the NCVS are more distinct. (gee I wonder why the discrepancy?)
Let me know when you catch up, and don't ever question me again, boy.
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I think that might qualify as an ad hominem. Sorry you didn't like the article; feel free to look up the stats yourself and let us know what you find, as you've told others to do. Boutons just posted a thread on America's white male problem and nobody said jack, really. Racism!!! Imagine a thread on America's black male problem; it would have as many posts as the Martin/Zimmerman thread, full of more KKK name calling. The race card game is like go fish to gin rummy.
