RT Article
T1 Victim and offender race and the likelihood of weapon use: a test of racial animosity and racial threat theories
JF Criminal justice studies
VO 36
IS 2
SP 184
OP 201
A1 Caines, Matthew
A2 Brown, Wyatt
LA English
YR 2023
UL https://krimdok.uni-tuebingen.de/Record/1844734064
AB The historically complex relationship between Blacks and Whites is believed to play an important role in the way offenders select their victims in violent crimes. This study tests two theories that have been used to explain interracial crimes: racial animosity theory and racial threat theory. Using data from the National Crime Victimization Survey (NCVS) from 1992 through 2016, we conduct two analyses of the racial dyads of White and Black offenders and victims to examine the role racial characteristics play in interpersonal crimes. Multinomial logistic regression is used to first analyze the likelihood of weapon use before narrowing our analysis specifically to handguns use. The findings provide minimal support for both racial threat theory and racial animosity theory.
K1 NCVS
K1 Weapon use
K1 Violence
K1 Race
DO 10.1080/1478601X.2023.2179047