Ethnicity and crime
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- Ethnicity and Crime
- Trends:
- court statistics
- ethnic minoirites are more likely to be given custodial sentences than ethnic majority
- Prison statistics
- Black people make up 3% of the population but 13.1% of prison population
- Asians make up 6.5% of the population but 7.7% of prison population
- police statistics
- ethnic minorities are 3X more likely to be stopped and searched
- court statistics
- demographic explanations:
- Explanation:
- BAME groups contain a disproportionate number of young people compared to white ethnic majority
- Evaluation:
- statistic illusion:
- it is impossible to determine if it is the age of the offenders that cause the highest rates of crime or if its their ethnicity
- statistic illusion:
- Explanation:
- Hall et al: Policing the crisis:
- neo marxist perspective
- he says that the ruling class can usually control the subordinate class
- however, when there is a crisis it is more difficult to control them
- locality theory: Waddington et al
- certain areas are more densely populated with ethnic minorities which explains higher stop and search statistics
- statistics are higher in these areas because the police focus on them due to labels and stereotypes
- institutional racism:
- Holdaway 1983:
- Police individually are not racist however when they are together, they can reinforce stereotypes and then act this way
- Phillip and Browning :
- "over policed and under protected"
- tasers: the chance of being tasered has increased
- asians: 3 in 10,000
- whites: 6 in 10,000
- Blacks: 18 in 10,000
- tasers: the chance of being tasered has increased
- "over policed and under protected"
- Holdaway 1983:
- social and cultural theory
- Hirshci - Bond theory
- young people regardless of their ethnicity commit crime due to the lack of social control
- He talks about bonds and how they prevent you committing crime and suggests that young people ignore these bonds
- belief, attachment, commitment and involvement
- Ethnic minorities dont have access to these bonds so they commit more crime
- Hirshci - Bond theory
- subcultures
- Left realism: Lea and Young
- suggest that ethnic minorities suffer from marginalization and relative deprivation which leads to subcultures which can be deviant.
- not all ethnic minorities join these criminal subcultures
- not all subcultures are criminal
- suggest that ethnic minorities suffer from marginalization and relative deprivation which leads to subcultures which can be deviant.
- Left realism: Lea and Young
- political protest: Gilroy
- Ethnic minorities often feel alienated by everyday experience of racism and racist police and so commit crime as a protest movement
- targetting is caused by moral panics such as the black muggers in 1970
- myth of black criminality
- Triple Quandary
- Sewell:
- three risk factors that could be responsible for the high crime rates in Black boys:
- 1. lack of a father figure
- 50% of black women are single parents
- 3. media such as rappers and status in society
- 2. negative experiences with white culture
- 1. lack of a father figure
- three risk factors that could be responsible for the high crime rates in Black boys:
- Sewell:
- Trends:
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