Ethnicity and Crime
- Created by: HLOldham
- Created on: 30-04-16 11:40
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- Ethnicity and Crime
- African-Caribbean people and Asian people are over-represented in the official statistics and prison population
- 2001-2001 Home Office
- Black people were 8 times more likely to be stopped and searched than whites
- Ethnic minorities are more likely than whites to be victims of crime
- Police record about 50,000 radically motivated crimes each yeat
- Many others go unreported or unrecorded
- Black men are more likely to receive a custodial sentence for a similar offence, and to receive a longer sentence for it
- Prison Rates
- Ethnic minorities are over-represented in prisons
- Black British prisoners form about 19% of the total prison population, about 7 times higher than would be expected in terms of their presence of the population
- HOWEVER... self-report studies suggest that ethnic minorities have lower rates of offending
- Why?
- POLICE TARGETS - 6x more likely to be stopped & searched than whites
- Philips and Bowing (2007), since the 70s the black community have been over-policed
- DIVERSITY OF AREAS - more likely to police deprived areas
- Ethnic minorities make up a large proportion of the underclass (strain theory)
- INSTITUTIONAL RACISM - stereotypes
- SOCIAL THEORY - labeling theory and moral panics
- Media/police opinions/ public opinions
- SUBCULTURES - due to social isolation in mainstream society
- POLICE TARGETS - 6x more likely to be stopped & searched than whites
- Facts
- Recorded crime only provides a partial view of crime
- It is hard to investigate whether the CJS is racist
- To investigate the CJS you would need more self-report studies and other comparable data to make a judgement
- This is not available
- To investigate the CJS you would need more self-report studies and other comparable data to make a judgement
- Methodological problems
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