Citation

Silverman RA, Riedel M, Kennedy LW. J. Crim. Justice 1990; 18(5): 401-416.

Copyright

(Copyright © 1990, Elsevier Publishing)

DOI

10.1016/0047-2352(90)90056-H

PMID

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Abstract

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. 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.