Ethnicity and Crime
- Created by: brooke34
- Created on: 01-06-19 16:13
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- Ethnicity and Crime
- Victimisation
- 54,000 racist incidents - CSEW 89,000 are unreported
- Mixed ethnic groups, blacks and Asians > white to be a victim
- Leads to psychological harm, fear, under protected (Steven Lawrence) situational crime prevention
- Offending
- 3% of population to 31.1% of prison population
- Blacks 8x more likely to be stopped and searched
- Police Racism - lead to target search
- Blacks 3x more likely than white to get a caution BUT may not as less evidence - trail severe sentence but more jury
- MURRAY - R.Realist - inadequate socialisation amongst some ethnic groups, high proportion of single families
- LEA & YOUNG - L.Realist - stats reflect real diff in levels of offending, relative deprivation and marginalisation (high level of unemployment, poverty)
- MACPHERSON - interactionism - institutional racism within the police force, stop and search (police can use this power if they have reasonable suspicion of wrongdoing
- Victimisation
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