Ethnicity and crime
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- Created on: 16-04-18 17:10
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- Ethnicity and crime
- Statistics
- Black people make up 3.3% of the English + Welsh popu but...
- Make up 8.3% of arrests and 13.5% of prison population
- Statistics are not always representative
- Only 29% of reported crimes in 2013-14 were solved
- Black people make up 3.3% of the English + Welsh popu but...
- Trends
- Bowling and Phillips = police racism creates higher suspicion of black people
- Macphearson report found the police to be institutionally racist.
- The court system has been accused of automatically favouring white middle class defendants
- Hall et al = black youth have been a scapegoat to distract society
- Moral panic = back muggings in 1970s
- Gilroy = ethnic minorities may use crime to fight against inequalities they face in society.
- Left realists say that relative deprivation and marginalisation are more common in EM so are more likely to form criminal subcultures
- Bowling and Phillips = police racism creates higher suspicion of black people
- Victims of crime
- EM housing is more at risk than other households
- They are more likely to be mugged than white people
- More likely to be victims of vehicle theft
- Mixed ethnic groups are more likely to be victims than black or Asian groups
- Racially motivated crimes
- Intra-ethnic = criminal and victims are of the same ethnicity
- Ethnic minority's are more likely to be worried about crime than white people
- They have less faith in the police and the criminal justice system
- Statistics
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