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Mortality from Homicide among Young Black Men


Mortality from Homicide among Young Black Men: A New American ...

In stark contrast, accidents are, far and away, the leading cause of death among young nonblack men and women of all races and ethnicities. Black men are 6 ...

Examining the Frequency and Timing of Homicide Deaths ...

Across this sample of young Black men (n = 40), participants experienced a collective total of 267 deaths of peers, biological family members, and other ...

Mortality from Homicide among Young Black Men

In 2012, an American tragedy of far greater urgency and public health importance is the alarming rate of homicide among young black men. Interracial homicide, ...

One Big Thing: The Leading Cause of Death in Young Black Males

The One Big Takeaway Homicide is the leading cause of death for Black males ages 1-19 and 20-44.

Premature Deaths of Young Black Males in the United States

In the United States, generations of young Black males, ages 15 to 24 years, are prematurely dying from homicide and suicide.

External factors, including homicide, drive death rate disparity in US ...

Homicide deaths accounted for the largest disparity among young adults, and were 20 times as high for black males and six times as high for ...

Topics in Minority Health Homicide Among Young Black Males - CDC

From 1978 though 1987, 20,315 young black males died as a result of homicide, for an average annual rate of 73.1 per 100,000. In 1987, homicides accounted for ...

What is Driving Widening Racial Disparities in Life Expectancy? - KFF

For example, homicide was the leading cause of death in 2021 among Black males ages 15-34, and the death rate was 20 times higher than their ...

Young Black men, teens made up 37% of 2019 gun homicide victims

Young Black men and teens made up more than a third of firearm homicide victims in the USA in 2019, one of several disparities revealed in a review of gun ...

Homicide among young black males--United States, 1978-1987

In 1987, homicide was the 12th leading cause of death in the United States and a leading cause of premature mortality (i.e., years of potential life lost ...

Even as COVID raged, spikes in homicide were a significant drag on ...

Black men fared worst among homicide victims, rising from 43.8 deaths per 100,000 men in 2019 to 61 per 100,000 in 2020. Over the same ...

Exceptional mortality risk among police-identified young black male ...

Gang member age-standardized rate of homicide was 950 per 100,000, 3 times greater than young black males in St. Louis. •. Gang membership is a source of excess ...

Study: Homicide leading cause of death among young black males

For nearly all teenagers, accidents are the most common cause of death, a national study has found. Yet for black males ages 12 to 19 years old, homicide ...

Premature deaths of young Black males in the United States.

In the United States, generations of young Black males, ages 15 to 24 years, are prematurely dying from homicide and suicide. Between 1950 and 2010, ...

Black-on-Black Homicide - A Psychological-Political Perspective

Black homicide rates are seven to eight times those of whites though Blacks have a rate of poverty only four to five times that of whites.

Firearm deaths among Black men at 28-year high, doctors are taking ...

They're 23 times more likely to experience firearm-related homicide than white men, the study showed. "Gun violence is an incredible scourge in ...

Black Homicide Victimization in the United States

The homicide rate for Black male victims was more than four times the overall rate for male homicide victims (50.5 per 100,000 compared to 12.3 per 100,00) and ...

Mortality from Homicide among Young Black Men: A New American ...

Homicide is the leading cause of death for Black men ages 18 -34 who are eight times more likely to die of violence than their White peers (Hennekens et al., ...

The Impact of the Homicide Decline on Life Expectancy of African ...

Results indicate that the decline in homicide mortality from 1991 to 2014 led to a 0.80-year increase in LE for African American males and a ...

Gun homicide rate for Black males 21 times higher than White males

A new report found that young Black men aged 10 to 24 died by gun homicide more than 21 times as often as White males in the same age group.