NCJ Number
121810
Journal
Violence and Victims Volume: 4 Issue: 4 Dated: (Winter 1989) Pages: 257-273
Date Published
1989
Length
17 pages
Annotation
In this article, the structural-cultural perspective is offered as an alternative theoretical model to explain the etiology of specific patterns of black-on-black violence that occur as a result of lower-class black male adherence to norms that emphasize sexual conquest.
Abstract
The theory is a multifactor argument because of black exposure to racially-induced structural pressures and dysfunctional cultural adaptations to those pressures. Because few studies examine the intrapersonal and interpersonal dynamics of black-on-black violence, this discussion of the structural-cultural perspective is grounded on findings and inferences from product (Wolfgang-type) studies of criminal violence and ethnographic accounts of lower-class black communities throughout the United States. 111 references. (Author abstract)