Homicide victimization ratio is a policing-bias-free criminality measure

Evidence

However, there is at least one criminality metric which can be comfortably regarded as relatively free of the effects of racialized policing. This more bias-free metric is the Homicide Victimization Ratio (HVR). This ratio is easily computed as the probability of being a victim of homicide if one is a subordinate in relation to the probability of being a victim of homicide if one is a dominant. Within SDT an HVR ratio substantially greater than 1.00 would be regarded as an index of self-debilitating behavior among subordinates. Examining empirical data, we see that African American males are six times more likely to be victims of lethal violence than White males of the same age (Sampson, Morenoff, & Raudenbush, 2005; see also Fingerhut, Ingram, & Feldman, 1998), with homicide being the leading cause of death among Black males aged 15–24 (see, for example, Phillips, 2002). — Joseph Avery, Jim Sidanius, Joel Cooper, Gregory Davis, Amanda N., Bias in the Law, 109

Categorization

• XREF: Provides the reader a way to measure intergroup harm net of policing bias — relevant to bias research methods distinguishing measured from reported rates.
• DEFINE: Defines the Homicide Victimization Ratio as a bias-resistant criminality metric and its SDT interpretation.
• corroborated: 2 independent passages support this claim — Joseph Avery, Jim Sidanius, Joel Cooper, Gregory Davis, Amanda N., Bias in the Law: A Definitive Look at…, 109