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Originally Posted by karomesis
tigermom, Are you familiar with evolutionary psychology? or cognitive science? It is difficult to entertain your comments seriously if you are unfamiliar with the topic being discussed.
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As it happens, I am quite familiar with research methods. Hopefully 5 university courses on the subject, both in BA and MA studies are enough for you to entertain my comments seriously?
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Originally Posted by karomesis
I realize that many have been given a short stick;I had some really rough times in the past, so what. Does that mean I have a right to commit crimes and put my fellow citizenry in fear because I "had a rough start"?I moved on with my life and tried to better myself, that is what others should do as well.
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This is hardly the issue here. No one is talking about what any other individual should or should not do or even does or does not do. This is about proper analysis of research data. Saying that race correlates to the level of crime is a simplistic reading of statistics, that was all I was saying. Being as there are so many other factors involved.
My point was that lower socio-economic status correlates to crime. And that race and socio-economic status also correlate. Does that mean that either one's socio economic background, or one's race, should be used as an excuse to commit crime? of course not.
I am glad to see that you do so much reading. If you can kindly refer me to a specific research that compares crime level by race and includes the socio-economic factor into the equation, that would certainly make an interesting read for me.