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 * + Percent of Nonwhite Males Enrolled in School Who are 1 or More Grades Below Mode for Age, by Age Group and Presence of Parents, 1960
 * | Age group
 * | Both parents present
 * | One parent present
 * | Neither parent present
 * | 7.5
 * | 7.7
 * | 9.6
 * | 23.8
 * | 25.8
 * | 30.6
 * | 34.0
 * | 36.3
 * | 40.9
 * | 37.6
 * | 40.9
 * | 44.1
 * | 60.6
 * | 65.9
 * | 46.1
 * colspan=4 |
 * }
 * | 37.6
 * | 40.9
 * | 44.1
 * | 60.6
 * | 65.9
 * | 46.1
 * colspan=4 |
 * }
 * | 46.1
 * colspan=4 |
 * }
 * }

Delinquency and Crime

The combined impact of poverty, failure, and isolation among Negro youth has had the predictable outcome in a disastrous delinquency and crime rate.

In a typical pattern of discrimination, Negro children in all public and private orphanages are a smaller proportion of all children than their proportion of the population although their needs are clearly greater.

On the other hand Negroes represent a third of all youth in training schools for juvenile delinquents.

It is probable that at present, a majority of the crimes against the person, such as rape, murder, and aggravated assault are committed by Negroes. There is, of course, no absolute evidence; inference can only be made from arrest and prison population statistics. The data that follow unquestionably are biased against Negroes, who are arraigned much more casually than are whites, but it may be doubted that the bias is great enough to affect the general proportions.

Again on the urban frontier the ratio is worse: 3 out of every 5 arrests for these crimes were of Negroes.

In Chicago in 1963, three-quarters of the persons arrested for such crimes were Negro; in Detroit, the same proportions held.

In 1960, 37 percent of all persons in Federal and State prisons were Negro. In that year, 56 percent of the homicide and 57 percent of the assault offenders committed to State institutions were Negro.