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The vast majority of these offenders were arrested for committing violent crimes, and most of the offenders are poor, unemployed, uneducated, come from dysfunctional families, and are African-American.

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In addition, the work examines the related discrimination suffered by the families of non-marital children, especially single parents and alternative family units, and concludes that it is impossible to gain full equality for children born out of wedlock unless equality is also gained for their family unit.

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Provides an ethnographic study of the buffering effect of the Black church against suicide. Findings indicate a consensus within the black community in terms of its attitudes and beliefs toward suicide. The work concludes that suicide is alien to underlying African-American belief systems.