Trust was assessed for 880 school children employing a method in which the children might choose to aid or not to aid a young male E who was a stranger to them. Boys were more likely to trust E and blacks were less likely to trust a white E than were white children but even less likely to trust a black E. The results were interpreted in relation to urban crime statistics indicating that the victims of crime are poor and black and that the criminal is likely to be a young man.
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