Criminal Records in High Crime Neighborhoods

This paper examines the arrest records of sample of young minority men living in high crime neighborhoods in Rochester and then compares them with records of homicide victims and suspects. In a random sample of 303 minority men over age 17 years old whose home schools were in the crescent area of Rochester, 39% had a record of arrest within the past four years. The data indicate that records of arrest are common among males in high crime neighborhoods but that arrests for serious charges, especially violence, gun crimes and drug offenses, are relatively rare when compared with those of homicide victims and suspects.