Ethnicity and crime
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- Created on: 15-01-19 17:31
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- Ethnicity and crime
- Neo-Marxism: Black crime as resistance
- Statistics do not reflect reality
- Gilroy- crime by black people reflected political action in response to inequality and the oppression/repression from police racism and harassment
- Black criminality is a myth created by negative stereotyping by the police and media
- Neo-Marxism: Black crime and scapegoating
- Hall- 1970s saw a moral panic over black 'muggers'
- Crisis of hegemony from economic and political crisis mixed with a growing conflict between police and the African Caribbean community
- media created 'folk devil', used as scapegoat
- Hall argues there was no real increase in street robbery but this moral panic was used to justify more aggressive policing
- Evaluation of neo-Marxism
- 1970s crisis of hegemony no longer exists but there is still conflicts between minority ethnic groups and the police
- Black crime is framed as political but often occurs against other black and poor people
- Most crime is reported by the public
- Left realism
- Lea and Young accept black crime for some offences is higher than for the white population
- They argue ethnic differences reflect real differences in the level of offending in different ethnic groups
- This is caused by three factors
- Marginality
- Some ethnic minority groups are pushed to the edge of mainstream society by educational underachievement, lack of employment or legitimate opportunities
- Relative deprivation
- A sense of lacking things compared to others, not being able to possess consumer goods that others have
- Subculture
- Both marginalisation and relative deprivation combine to develop subcultures in communities. Provides support and aspirations
- Marginality
- Racism
- Racism has lead to marginalisation and economic exclusion of ethnic minorities
- They face higher levels of unemployment, poverty and poor housing
- Discriminatory policing does not explain the differences in statistics as 90% of crimes are reported by members of the public
- Neo-Marxism: Black crime as resistance
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