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...discussion of his research last night, Sociology Department Chair Robert J. Sampson proposed explanations for what he called the “black-white gap in violence,” arguing that much of such a gap is based on the environment in which an individual is raised rather than on race...
...Kennedy School of Government’s Rappaport Institute for Greater Boston, concluded that, even though black youths’ rates of violent acts are, on average, about 85 percent higher than those of whites and Latinos, environmental factors account for more than 60 percent of this gap...
Over the years, explanations proposed for the black-white gap have ranged from socioeconomic status and prevalence of single-mother households to varying levels of impulsiveness in different racial groups...
...data for Chicago also showed that Latinos committed violent acts at a rate 10 percent lower than whites. However, when their surroundings were taken into account, the gap disappeared...
...regulation, the game changed when, with 13:58 left in the fourth quarter, sophomore Steve Williams read Yale quarterback Jeff Mroz perfectly, picking off his pass and running it 18 yards in for a touchdown. Williams’ score closed the gap to 21-16 in favor of the Bulldogs and came on the heels of O’Hagan fumbling the ball on the Yale 12-yard line...