Ethnicity and crime
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- Ethnicity and crime
- Trends in ethnicity and crime
- Over-represented in crime statistics
- Black people 7x more likely to be stopped and searched under section 60
- Arrest rate is 3x higher for black people
- 1/4 of police population are ethnic minorities
- Black people 4x more likely to be in prison
- Black people make up 13%of prison population but only 3% of general pop
- Self-report studied suggest that black and white commit similar levels of crime
- Institutional racism within the police system
- Differences in offending
- Neo-Marxist perspective
- Crime statistics are not representative of crime in society
- MEGs are stereotypes differently and as more criminal than white
- Gilroy
- Afro-Caribbean groups are not any more criminal than others
- Stereotypes by police lead to over policing in MEG areas and increased arrests due to this
- Minority crime may be seen as political resistance
- Linked to colonialism. When countries were colonised the people resisted British oppression
- In the UK this activity is criminalised
- Linked to colonialism. When countries were colonised the people resisted British oppression
- Afro-Caribbean groups are not any more criminal than others
- Hall et al - the muggers crisis
- The crisis of black crime is a social construction
- The creation of ‘mugging’ (street crime) became associated with black youth and acted as a scapegoat to divert attention of the public from real issues
- Political unrest in NI, high inflation and high unemployment rates
- The black muggers were a symbol of societal disintegration
- Demonstrated black youth as threatening and violent
- Increased class divisions on racial grounds and increased authoritarian rule
- Black crime is not due to media, police and racist labelling.
- Due to marginalisation through unemployment so innovation/ crime become necessary
- Crime statistics are not representative of crime in society
- Left-realist perspective
- Racism leads to marginalisation and economic exclusion of minority groups
- Formation of subcultures in unemployed young black males which are used to deal with relative deprivation
- Utilitarian crime as a result
- Lea and Young
- Selective racism causes differences in MEG crime rates
- Police may be discriminatoryagainst certain groups
- Offending patterns are caused by deprivation and subcultures
- Status frustrations leads to non-utilitarian crime
- Neo-Marxist perspective
- Alternative reasons why MEGs commit more crime
- Family structure which lacks a a male role model means that black boys have poor socialisation
- Tony Sewell - black boys are raised by MTV
- Negative role models in rappers and gangstas
- Lack of education opportunity due to labelling and ethnocentric curriculum leads to unemployment and crime becomes possible
- Trends in ethnicity and crime
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