‘Black dealers kill people and come from the projects; Whites dealers kill people and come from nice families’: contextualized racialized perceptions of related criminal behaviors within an attribution theory framework

Figures & data

Table 1. Events during 2007–2020 in 15 neighborhoods by sex and race, N (rate).

	Black	White	Other	Total
Homicide victims
Male	82 (2.26)	24 (0.09)	4 (0.42)	110 (0.34)
Female	12 (0.27)	4 (0.01)	0 (0.00)	16 (0.04)
Total	94 (1.17)	28 (0.05)	4 (0.21)	126 (0.18)
Drug overdose deaths
Male	59 (1.63)	540 (1.91)	4 (0.41)	603 (1.84)
Female	21 (0.48)	218 (0.70)	5 (0.51)	244 (0.67)
Total	80 (0.99)	758 (1.28)	9 (0.46)	847 (1.22)

Rate = [number of events/average number of people with these demographic characteristics living in the 15 neighborhoods during the study period] * 100.