ethnicity and crime
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- Created on: 13-06-22 00:55
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- ethnicity and crime
- WHY BLACK PEOPLE APPEAR MORE CRIMINAL
- LEA AND YOUNG
- Differences in statistics are the result of black people being discriminated in wider society
- Utilitarian crime is a response to material deprivation and non-utilitarian crime is due to their frustration towards society
- police racism is not the main cause of this because 90% of crimes are reported by the public
- Utilitarian crime is a response to material deprivation and non-utilitarian crime is due to their frustration towards society
- Differences in statistics are the result of black people being discriminated in wider society
- GILROY
- It is the result of racist policing who act on stereotypes
- when they resisted racism in Britain it was criminalised.
- It is the result of racist policing who act on stereotypes
- HALL ET AL
- there was a moral panic about black people and mugging
- because capitalism was in crisis and they used this story to cover it up
- black people were not more criminal but a mere victim of capitalism
- this made black people more unlikely to get jobs and then turn to crime.
- black people were not more criminal but a mere victim of capitalism
- because capitalism was in crisis and they used this story to cover it up
- there was a moral panic about black people and mugging
- LEA AND YOUNG
- WHY BLACK PEOPLE ARE MORE CRIMINAL
- EDUCATION
- Black caribbean pupils statistically perform poorly in education
- they may find it hard to find a legitimate and sufficiently well-paid job.
- they may either turn to illegal means of employment (such as drug trade) or turn to crime due to relative deprivation.
- they may find it hard to find a legitimate and sufficiently well-paid job.
- Black caribbean pupils statistically perform poorly in education
- FAMILY
- new right - the growing rate of a lone-parent family structure with in the black community leads to inadequate socialisation
- children are not taught the correct norms and values of society -, they are not taught crime is immoral.
- new right - the growing rate of a lone-parent family structure with in the black community leads to inadequate socialisation
- MEDIA
- Media representations reinforce the stereotype that black people are more criminal
- This may lead to a self fulfilling prophecy and black people will in turn commit more crime.
- Media representations reinforce the stereotype that black people are more criminal
- EDUCATION
- WHY BLACK PEOPLE APPEAR MORE CRIMINAL
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