If a particular group is disproportionately represented in prison, are there other, independent variables that could account for the correlation?

Black lawyers are less common, though in politically correct Hollywood these days, they seem disproportionately represented on the bench.

Caribbean students are also disproportionately represented on the dean's lists.

Women are disproportionately represented among victims, and most often abused by other residents of the home.

People older than 70 were also disproportionately represented in pedestrian deaths.

Congressmen from the New York area have also been disproportionately represented among the committee's members.

American Jews are disproportionately represented in business, academia and politics.

At all age levels, black men were disproportionately represented in the "never married" column.

Black men are disproportionately represented on death row, while almost all capital cases involve white victims.

Two of them work for the phone company, which seems to be disproportionately represented on nearly every jury I have ever seen.