Race and Crime
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- Created on: 05-11-21 09:04
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- Crime and Deviance
- Statistics
- Black people are 3 times more likely to be arrested
- Black men were about 8.4 times more likely to be arrested for robbery compared with White men.
- BAME people were stopped at a rate 4.1 times higher than White people.
- Reasons for disparities
- Left Realism
- Relative deprivation- Where people feel deprived in relation to others
- Marginalisation- Where people lack resources to participate in society
- Focuses on preventing crime and understanding why . Improving living standards and working with communities
- Criticised for not identifying underling capitalist structures that cause inequity and being more costly than RR. Ignores vicimes
- Right Realism
- Rational choice theory- individuals evaluate whether or no they can get away with crime and they have free choice
- The Underclass (Murray)- Welfare dependency leads parents to socialise children to be irresponsible and cut off from society
- Focuses on increasing surveillance, increasing punishment for minor crimes and a zero tolerance approach
- Criticised for ignoring the underlining causes of crime and other factors that may cause crime. Ignores victimes
- Labelling Theory
- An internationalist theory that focuses on stereotyping and bias
- Moral entrepreneur- Group person or organisation with the power to create or enforce rules and impose their own def
- Self fulfilling prophecy
- Moral panic - A moral panic is an exaggerated outburst of public concern over the morality or behaviour of a group in society.
- Strain Theory
- Criticism that it was over 30 years ago and society has changed
- Reactions to the strain: Conformity, Innovation, Ritualism, Retreatism Rebellion
- Social factors such as lack of quality education or employment can cause frustration. Difference between what we want and what we have
- Left Realism
- Institutionalised racism discusses how white ideology dominates institutions within society and creates negative bias against minority groups
- Stephan Lawrence - Murdered in the 90s in a racially motivated attack. At the time nobody was bough to justice and raised questions about racism within the justice system
- Links
- Marxists criticise statistics as being manipulated by ruling classes therefore are unreliable
- Media influence- Modern day examples include media encouraging islamaphobia
- Family structure- Lack of a fatherly role can lead children to crime. Children with absent fathers are more likely to commit crime in African American households
- Statistics
- Strain Theory
- Criticism that it was over 30 years ago and society has changed
- Reactions to the strain: Conformity, Innovation, Ritualism, Retreatism Rebellion
- Social factors such as lack of quality education or employment can cause frustration. Difference between what we want and what we have
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