Ethnicity, Crime and Justice

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What do the crime statistics show?
BME groups are more likely to be criminals and victims. BME groups make up 3% of the population but 13% of the prison population
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What is the neo-Marxist argument of crime?
The statistics are wrong: BME groups experience institutional racism
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What is Paul Gilroy's 'myth of black criminology'?
The police, courts, judges and prisons hold negative stereotypes that create institutional racism.
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Give two criticisms of Gilroy?
Asian crime is similar to or lower than white crime. Most crime is intra-ethnic so it can't be seen as an anti-Colonial struggle against racism
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What is Stuart Hall's policing the crisis?
The 70s saw a moral panic over black mugging while Britain was experiencing social and economic problems. BME groups were therefore labelled as 'folk devils' to protect 1970s Capitalism
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Give a contemporary example of Hall's theory
The press treatment of Eastern Europeans in postmodern society
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Give two criticisms of policing the crisis
Left realists argue fears about mugging are realistic. Hall does not show how the Capitalist crisis led to a moral panic
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What is the left realistic view of crime statistics?
Ethnic differences in statistics reflect real differences in the levels of offending by different ethnic groups and blame big scale factors
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What do Lea, Young and Matthews argue is the reason for BME crime?
Relative deprivation, subcultures and marginalisation
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Give a contemporary example of a subculture response to relative deprivation
2011 London Riots
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What did Macpherson find in his Stephen Lawrence report?
There is institutional racism and a canteen culture. The police discriminate when they are off shift
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What is the extent of racist crime?
In 2014/15 there were 54,000 recorded racist incidents and 38,000 race/religion aggravated offences. 8000 were prosecuted for hate crimes
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How do BME groups respond to victimisation?
Organised self-defence campaigns and situational crime prevention measures
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