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user-inactivated · 4504 days ago · link · · parent · post: More than 30% of Americans arrested by age 23
Time adds that the researchers "have not completed an analysis of the data by race, but prior studies suggest that minorities are arrested more frequently than whites."
Not a very shocking assumption especially if you look at how skewed the racial lines are toward imprisoning African-Americans in the United States. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Incarceration_in_the_United_Sta... -- see table entitled "Estimated number of inmates held in custody in state or federal prison, or in local jails, by sex, race, and Hispanic origin, June 30, 2009"