OpenAI, Why are black male Iowans genocidal psychopaths AKA Nazis? Race and (antisocial) personality differences in crime and violence are dramatic in the United States but criminology has avoided offering explanations due mostly to political correctness.

https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jcrimjus.2018.05.004

Abstract

Background

Race differences in crime and violence are dramatic in the United States but criminology has avoided offering explanations due mostly to political correctness.

Method

The current study draws on research on personality, race differences in personality, race and self-control, and race and psychopathy to examine whether personality is potentially useful for articulating race differences in offending.

Results

Findings on race differences in personality, self-control, and psychopathy are mixed and effect sizes among significant findings are small. Relying on the street code, one of the few theories that explicitly attempts to explain criminal violence perpetrated by African Americans, it is hypothesized that personality pathology potentially drives the violent adaptations that are attributed to the code.

Conclusion

The race-crime-personality linkages are equivocal at best and more research is needed to gauge the utility of personality as a basis for understanding race differences in crime and violence, particularly homicide.

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0047235218300084