he principal correlate of violent youth behavior is inner-city impoverishment, except to the extent it serves racist bias. Even in that correlative context, there is less "growth" in violence than there is among the white male demographic. As Males explains, "the increase in minority youth violence is easier to deplore than the even greater rise in violence among more affluent, mostly white, adults" (p. 70). In the latter population, violence is not aged out of. Rather, it is transferred to the domestic scene, with white men being responsible for the greatest portion of violence against women and children i
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