Crime and Deviance ; Ethnicity, Class and Location
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- Crime & Deviance
- Ethnicity
- Police Targeting - Phillips and Browning - "over- policed and under protected"
- UK Population - 13% ethnic minorities
- Disproportion
- UK Prison population - 25% ethnic minorities
- Disproportion
- UK Prison population - 25% ethnic minorities
- UK Population - 13% ethnic minorities
- Locality Theory - Waddlington - densely populated ethinc minoriites e.g Brixon leads to more stop and searches
- Institutional Racism - Holdaway - Canteen Culture within policeforce
- black men sent to prison 3x more than white men
- Subcultures - Lee and Young - marginalised and relative deprivation due to high unemploymenand racism
- Moral Panic - Hall - Black muggings in the media
- Macpherson Report - not enough ethnic minorities in police force, institutional racism, ignores evidence
- Victimisation - Sampson and Phillips - racist victimisation tends to be ongoing with periods of minor incidents and major ones like physical violence
- Police Targeting - Phillips and Browning - "over- policed and under protected"
- Class
- Crimes Committed
- W/C - theft, murder, sexual, vandalism, assult
- M/C - cyber, fraud, bribery, forgery, money laundering
- Selective law Enforcement - W/C are powerless and criminalised whilst the justice system ignores crimes committed by the powerful
- Selective Law Creation - Chambliss - laws protect private property are the cornerstone of capitalist economy
- Labelling and Stereotypes - Cirourel - M/C negotiate non-criminal labels for their misbehaviour
- Criminogenic Capitalism - capitalism based on exploiting W/C, using them for profit.
- Crime is a response to the capitalist system
- Crimes Committed
- Location
- Zone of Transition - Shaw and McKay - highest crime rates in zone 2 as most densely populated.
- People come and go so there is a lack of community
- 'Problem Families' - Morris - "It's the people, not the area" , council puts problem families in the same area
- Tipping - Baldwin and Bottom - informal control fails, disorder rises, good families leave and more problem families move in
- Sink Estate Liverpool - Gill - once desirable housing estate turned negative by council, media created negative stereotype, impacted jobs, higher police attention
- Zone of Transition - Shaw and McKay - highest crime rates in zone 2 as most densely populated.
- Ethnicity
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