NCJ Number
126930
Journal
Journal of Criminal Justice Volume: 18 Issue: 5 Dated: (1990) Pages: 401-416
Date Published
1990
Length
16 pages
Annotation
In order to highlight racial differences in patterns of homicide with child victims, a comparison of murdered children under the age of 14 was undertaken for Illinois and Ontario.
Abstract
Comparison of a Canadian jurisdiction with a U.S. jurisdiction allowed analysis of culturally generated factors. The findings indicate that the rate of homicide against black children in Illinois was much higher than that for whites in Illinois or for Ontario children overall. More interesting, some of the patterns that emerged suggest that white children in Illinois are killed in ways more similar to children in Ontario than to black children in Illinois. 9 tables, 10 notes, and 54 references (Author abstract)