Sexual conquest and patterns of black-on-black violence: a structural-cultural perspective.
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. The theory is a multifactor argument that assumes that there are specific types of black-on-black violence occur 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.
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Criminal Justice Program, University of Delaware, Newark.
D001741:Black or African American / Q000523:psychology*; D003466:Cultural Characteristics; D005783:Gender Identity; D006801:Humans; D012106:Research; D012649:Self Concept; D012725:Sexual Behavior; D014754:Violence