Crime and Deviance: Topic 6: Ethnicity, crime and justice
- Created by: Deborah Mercy
- Created on: 10-06-13 11:12
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- Ethnicity, crime and justice
- Ethnicity and criminalisation
- Ministry of Justice - black people are 7 times more likely to be stopped and searched than white men
- Alternative sources of statistics - victim surveys, self report studies
- Policing - Stephen Lawrence - Phillips and Bowling
- Stop and Search facts
- Mc Phearson reports - institutionally racist police
- Ethnic differences in offending: low discretion - looking for someone and high discretion - act without certain intelligence
- Demographic factors - ethnic minorities are over represented
- Arrests and cautions - blacks are more likely to be arrested than cautioned
- Prosecution - CPS are likely to drop against an ethnic minority case as evidence by police is weak, based on stereotyping
- Trial - ethnic minoroties elect for jury beofre trial
- Convictions - Black and Asian people are less liely to be found guilty - suggests discrimination
- Sentencing - custodial sentences are given to blacks more than any other race
- Whites and Asians were given community sentences
- Pre-sentence reports - Asian offenders were less remorseful than whites - demonising Muslims
- Prison - over a quater of males were from ethnic minority groups - blacks were 5 times more likely to be in prison, same with the length of thee sentence
- Link to the judiciary system
- Explaining the differences in offending
- Migration
- Left realism and right
- Neo Marxist- statistics are based on lablling
- Left realism
- Lea and Youg - statistics show the real truth on ethnicity crimes
- Blacks commit more utlitarian crimes - but this may not be correct - one cannot talk statistics at face-value.
- L&Y noticed that police act in aa racist way - 90% of crimes are reported to police by individuals
- Marginalised groups feel vulnerable to police and are attacked by them
- Neo-Marxism
- Gilroy - statistics do not immitate reality
- Gilory: the myth of black criminaality
- It is created by racist people
- Ethnic people are minoritiess thats why!
- Link to british colonies - 50's
- Untitled
- Hall et al: policing the crisis
- 70's moral panic over muggers
- Ruling class ideology vs working class phenomenon
- Dawwnes and Rock argue that Hall et al are inconsistent in claiming that black crime is rising
- Ethnicity and victimisation
- Mc Phearson reports
- BCS - racist/religious incidents
- Extent and rish of victimation e.g. 61,000 racist incidents
- Responses to victimisation - Lack of protection from police
- Ethnicity and criminalisation
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