The structural context of homicide: Accounting for racial differences in process

Previous research demonstrates differences in the processes that generate b lack and white rates of criminal violence. Analyses of race-specific urban homicide offending rates for 1990 test the hypothesis that racially differe nt effects occur because the crime-generating process itself is conditioned by the social situations of blacks and whites. Results show that when Afri can Americans and whites have similar low levels of concentrated disadvanta ge, the effects of disadvantage and homeownership are relatively comparable .