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Study: 48% of U.S. Blacks Arrested by Age of 23

HeadlineJan 10, 2014

A new study says nearly half of all African-American men will be arrested by the time they are 23 years old. A survey of 7,000 black males from 1997 to 2008 published in the journal Crime & Delinquency showed that 48 percent had been arrested by the time they turned 23.

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