This thesis examined the relationship between type of crime and a number of structural characteristics (age, ed�ucation, marital status, number of children, religion, size of household, number of male adults in the household, number of female adults in the household, number of male children in the household, number of female children in the house�hold, occupation, duration of stay,, sex), criminal charac�teristics (excessive drinking of alcohol in public places, fear of crime, people damaging other's property, people using drugs in public places, dangerousness of community), community integration characteristics (troublemakers hanging around, neighbors not getting along, people saying insulting things, trespassing in yards, people fighting), public facilities available (police, public health facilities, public transportation) for two groups: middle class with low crime and middle class with high crime. Five hypotheses were formed to measure the significant difference between these two groups in terms of the above five sets of variables. The relationship between the variables were analyzed through Pearson's Correlation analysis and the hypotheses were tested through T-test. This study has shown that three major sets of variables are important when considering the differential crime patterns among the black middle class. These are criminal characteristics, community integration charac�teristics and type of crime. It is also observed that certain structural characteristics are partially important when assessing the relationship between this particular income population. These structural characteristics include education, number of children, size of household, number of male adults in the household, number of female children in the household and duration of stay in the community.
