Ethnicity and Crime
- Created by: Joseph Timoney-Smith
- Created on: 24-03-15 12:29
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- Ethnicity and Crime
- Theorizing race and criminality
- Left Realist
- Lea and Young
- Accept that there are racist practices by the police but higher crime does correlate with young African-Caribbean males
- This is because they are marginalized by society
- They create culture/subcultures of resistance, these factors are exacerbated by anti-colonial struggles that are ingrained into social memory
- Due to ghettos and level of deprivation
- This is because they are marginalized by society
- Accept that there are racist practices by the police but higher crime does correlate with young African-Caribbean males
- Lea and Young
- Marxist: Cultures of Resistance
- Scraton
- Blacks are in a worse socioeconomic position than whites due to racism
- They create cultures of resistance in respose to the depreivation
- It creates a sense of belonging within a society that refuses to accept you
- Some have critisized Scraton of "romanticising" crime and criminals
- Marxist: Capitalism in Crisis
- Hall et al
- When capitalism is in crisis (such as the unrest in Northern Ireland) the authorities have to toughen up
- So the bourgise choose an already marginalized group and use them as a "scapegoat" - someone to blame and hate
- the purpose is distract society from the dominating class
- So the bourgise choose an already marginalized group and use them as a "scapegoat" - someone to blame and hate
- Criticisms: Does not look at the motives of Black youths
- When capitalism is in crisis (such as the unrest in Northern Ireland) the authorities have to toughen up
- Hall et al
- Postmodernist: Fitzgerald et al
- More deprivation = more crime
- Black youths are the highest offending group in Britain
- A link between lone-parent households
- Similarly alienation from school and a fatalistic approach to life meant anti-establishment subcultures are created (gangs)
- Left Realist
- Police and ethnic minority groups
- Skolnick
- Canteen culture
- Refers to the conservative, working class values that the police hold
- Masculinity is also a major part, meaning police want to be accepted by each other
- Personal biases hinders professional police work, they target black people because of their own values
- They stereotype black people
- Refers to the conservative, working class values that the police hold
- Canteen culture
- Mcpherson Inquiry 1997
- After the Steven Laurence case the police were labelled as insitutionally racist
- The police themselves are not racist but their training and teachings have meant how they work is biased against black youths, who are targeted more
- After the Steven Laurence case the police were labelled as insitutionally racist
- Skolnick
- Offical statistics
- Black people are three times more likely to be arrested over white
- Theorizing race and criminality
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