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In his book streetwise, elijah anderson argues that young african american men are more likely to be arrested because:

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they are more prone to significant factors that drive people to crime, such as poverty and racism. Gentrifcation in inner cities thereby creates a place where the original inhabitants of a gentrified area are seen as out of place by society as a whole, thereby leading to the likelihood of black male arrests
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