Ethnicity and crime
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- Created on: 03-05-17 08:33
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- Ethnicity & Crime
- EMs commit more crimes
- MORRIS Demographic factors - EMs have a higher proportion of young people and young people commit more crimes
- MERTON Strain theory - EMs lack access to legitimate means due to deprivation so they turn to illegitimate means
- COHEN Status deprivation - AC lack official status and join gangs to gain status
- GILROY Cultures of resistance - EMs form of collective and active resistance against racism and exploitation
- SEWELL Triple Quandary - ACs are more likely to experience racism, conspicious consumption and absent fathers
- EMs don't commit more crimes
- PHILIPS AND BOWLING Racist Policing - ACs are 6 times more likely to be stopped and searched as they are stereotyped
- GILBOURN The Myth of the Black Challenge - The white dominated police are unfamiliar with black culture so ACs are wrongly interpreted as a threat to authority
- HALL Policing the Crisis - A moral panic about black muggers where they were scapegoated as the problem - away from the real cause which was unemployment
- EMs commit more crimes
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