Ethnicity and Crime Continued
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- Created on: 30-04-16 13:45
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- Ethnicity and Crime
- Gilroy
- Argues that crime committed by young African-Caribbean's is political; a result of their position in society
- Hall
- Criminalisation of black people began in the 70s
- Moral panics as a result of the crisis of capitalism
- Criminalisation of black people began in the 70s
- Lea and Young
- Left-realists
- Four concepts to understand why some ethnic minorities commit crime
- Relative Deprivation
- Individualism
- Marginalisation
- Subculture
- Role of the Police
- Reiner (1989) police racism can be individual, cultural or structural
- INDIVIDUAL officers may discriminate
- Officers actions ma be affected by a 'POLICE CULTURE' in which certain groups are seen as troublesome and suspicious
- STRUCTURAL content of police activity - i.e police certain areas more, white collar crime tends to go unnoticed
- Reiner (1989) police racism can be individual, cultural or structural
- Facts
- Concern over policing, crime and racism has been a long-running theme in UK society
- Concern was heightened following the racist murder of Stephan Lawrence (1993)
- Murder of 10 year old Damilola Taylor (2001) was seen as the Metropolitan Polices 1st big test since the Stephan Lawrence case
- However, the trial collapsed in 2001 due to police and crown prosecution failings according to official investigations
- Evidence for Institutional Racism
- Stephan Lawrence's murder in 1993
- Police thought it 'just was another drug deal gone wrong in the black community'
- Interviews with white racists were bungled and it later became impossible to make a conviction against the killers stand, even in the civil court
- The McPherson report 2000 argued that institutional racism, the stereotyping of blacks in the police 'canteen culture', was to blame
- The Government began keeping stats on ethnic criminality and victimization, to monitor progress on justice, recruitment and community relations
- The Policy Studies Institute found that blacks were 100% more likely to be stopped and searched. Yet only 3% of all incidents resulted in an arrest
- Landau and Nathan found that the police exercised discretion in favor of white and against blacks, who were less likely to be cautioned and more likely to be charged
- Blom-Cooper found that blacks in Brixton were more likely to be charged with the more serious offence, where police had a choice of several
- Stephan Lawrence's murder in 1993
- Gilroy
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