Higher levels of crime among black people could be the product of labelling. Stopping and searching more black people will mean more crime is found. This in turn creates self-fulfilling prophecy which leads to more crime.
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Waddington [criticism of Bowling and Phillips]
-Police do stop a proportionately higher number of black people compared to white people.
-However, this is because there are more ethnic minority (EMS) youths out at night in certain areas
-> so police simply end up targeting EMS in those high risk are
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Hall (Marxist)
There was a moral panic about black mugging in the 1970s -> used to divert attention away from problems with the Capitalist system.
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Reiner
Argues that there is a racist 'canteen culture' in the police force.
-Reiner believes that as a part of the police's job, police recruits develop distinctive values to help them cope with their stressful work.
-Some characteristics: suspicion, macho valu
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Macpherson Report
Concluded that the police are institutionally racist. They have procedure, practices and a culture that tend to exclude or disadvantage non-white people.
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Lea and Young (left realists)
Black people are actually more likely to commit crime due to relative deprivation, marginalisation, and the formation of subcultures
-black people are not victims of the criminal justice system.
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Gilroy (Neo-Marxist)
Argues that EMS do commit more crime, but it should be seen as a form of anti-colonial struggle. It is a political response to inequality and discrimination (EMS committing crime due to unequal treatment and opportunities).
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Lea and Young [criticism of Gilroy]
Argues that the majority of black crime has black victims
-therefore you can't reflect a political struggle against the white majority.
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Other cards in this set
Card 2
Front
-Police do stop a proportionately higher number of black people compared to white people.
-However, this is because there are more ethnic minority (EMS) youths out at night in certain areas
-> so police simply end up targeting EMS in those high risk are
Back
Waddington [criticism of Bowling and Phillips]
Card 3
Front
There was a moral panic about black mugging in the 1970s -> used to divert attention away from problems with the Capitalist system.
Back
Card 4
Front
Argues that there is a racist 'canteen culture' in the police force.
-Reiner believes that as a part of the police's job, police recruits develop distinctive values to help them cope with their stressful work.
-Some characteristics: suspicion, macho valu
Back
Card 5
Front
Concluded that the police are institutionally racist. They have procedure, practices and a culture that tend to exclude or disadvantage non-white people.
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