Success for Black Boys

Violence is an all too common occurrence in the United States and children and adolescent boys and men of color in California are exposed to this violence at a higher rate than girls and their white counterparts.

In a study released in June 2010 by The Charles Hamilton Institute for Race and Justice at Harvard Law School in collaboration with The School of Public Health at Drexel University; The RAND Corporation; Policy Link and The California Endowment, it was reported that from 1993 to 2003, boys, ages 12 to 17, were 50% more likely than girls to be victims of nonfatal violent crimes.

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