Ethnicity and Crime
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- Ethnicity and Crime
- Offending Sentencing and Punishment
- Offending
- Official Statistics
- People from some minority ethnic groups are more likely to be arrested for and convicted of crime than the White ethnic majority
- Black population is 3.1% but they make up a much higher proportion of those stopped and searched (14.2%), arrested (8.3%), convicted (7.5%) or sent to prison (8.9%).
- People from some minority ethnic groups are more likely to be arrested for and convicted of crime than the White ethnic majority
- Self-report studies
- The highest offending rate was found to be the 'White' population with a rate of 42% admitting to an offence
- Official Statistics
- Offending
- Ethnicity and Victimisation
- Victimisation studies
- Philips and Bowling
- The higher risk of victimisation is the result of the relatively high proportion of minority ethnic groups living in cities, where rates of victimisation are particularly high
- Philips and Bowling
- Victimisation studies
- Criminal Justice, Ethnicity, and Racism
- Policing
- Tim Newburn
- There has been a great deal of controversy over relationships between police and minority ethnic groups over recent decades
- Tim Newburn
- Stop and Search
- Black people are 5 times more likely to be stopped and searched than white peope
- Arrests
- Black people make up a higher proportion of arrests than of the population as a whole ( 8.9% > 3.3%)
- Sentencing and Imprisonment
- Whites are slightly more likely to get convicted of indictable offences once they been sent to trial
- Black and Asian people are more likely to be sent immediately to prison
- Whites are slightly more likely to get convicted of indictable offences once they been sent to trial
- Policing
- Theorising race and community
- Lea and Young: the left realist approach
- There are racist practices amongst the police
- Despite this, there is still statistically more street crime being committed by black youth
- There are racist practices amongst the police
- Paul Gilroy; an anti-racist perspective
- Evaluation
- Lea and Young
- The majority of crime committed by black people is intraracial
- Lea and Young
- Left Realists are wrong to argue that crime rates are higher for minority ethnic groups
- Crime is part of a legacy of the struggle against white dominance in former colonies
- Evaluation
- Neo-Marxism - capitalism in crisis
- Evaluation
- Not making any attempt to research the motivations and thinking of young African Caribbean males.
- Stuart Hall
- The focus on a group already marginalised during the 'mugging' crisis was an attempt to draw attention away from the problem and blame a scapegoat
- Evaluation
- Lea and Young: the left realist approach
- Offending Sentencing and Punishment
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