>It is not unique to predominantly black neighborhoods. It is common in very poor neighborhoods though. Why is there more crime in certain areas of Istanbul? What makes them different?
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>Here is an interesting article which disputes the success rate and the effect living in a poverty-stricken neighborhood has on it:
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>http://www.colorado.edu/news/releases/2006/430.html
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I would take ANY report that comes out of Bolder with a pound of salt! I'd like to see their methodology in that study. They referenced "parents". Most of the "families" I encountered in the hood had a grandmother who didn't work, a daughter who might have a job, but usually was running wild in the streets, and several kids who were left to raise themselves. I arrested a "mom" once after we hit a warrant and found three kids, all under 8 y/o asleep on a couch. They had cockroaches crawling all over them, cockroaches crawling all over the food that had been left out in the kitchen, cockroaches all over the bathroom, and rats making noise in the attic. I sent the kids to human services, and took the pit bull they had chained to a doghouse, with no food or water, to the humane shelter. That was a more "typical" family from the hood than the Huxtables, and that's the "family" environment that I say can facilitate future gangsters.