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ETHNICITY AND OFFENDING (LEFT REALISTS (C = LEA AND YOUNG CAN BE…
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S = MACHPERSON REPORT CONCLUDED THE MURDER OF STEPHEN LAWERENCE SHOWED THERE WAS INSTITUTIONAL RACISM IN THE METROPOLITAN POLICE
C = GROUPS (YOUNG, UNEMPLOYED, MANUAL WORKERS, URBAN DWELLERS) ARE MOST LIKELY TO BE STOPPED REGARDLESS OF THEIR ETHNICITY
MEMBERS OF MINORITY ETHNIC GROUPS ARE MOST LIKELY TO BE STOPPED AND SEARCHED BY THE POLICE AS STATISTICS SHOW THAT COMPARED WITH WHITE PEOPLE
LEFT REALISTS
LEA AND YOUNG ARGUE THAT RACISM HAS LED TO THE MARGINALISATION AND ECONOMIC EXCLUSION OF ETHNIC MINORITIES, WHO FACE HIGHER LEVELS OF UNEMPLOYMENT, POVERTY AND POOR HOUSING
AT THE SAME TIME, THE MEDIA'S EMPHASIS ON CONSUMERISM PROMOTES A SENSE OF RELATIVE DEPRIVATION BY SETTING MATERIALISTIC GOALS THAT MAN MEMBERS OF MINORITY GROUPS ARE UNABLE TO REACH BY LEGITIMATE MEANS
AS GROUPS ARE MARGINALISED AND HAVE NO ORGANISATIONS TO REPRESENT THEIR INTERESTS, FRUSTRATION IS LIABLE TO PRODUCE NON-UTILITARIAN CRIMES
S = LEA AND YOUNG ACKNOWLEDGE THAT THE POLICE OFTEN ACT IN RACIST WAYS AND THAT THIS RESULTS IN THE UNJUSTIFIED CRIMINATION OF SOME MEMBERS OF MINORITY GROUPS
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NEO-MARXISTS: GILROY
AS A RESULT OF THE POLICE AND CRIMINAL JUSTICE SYSTEM ACTING ON THESE RACIST STEREOTYPES, ETHNIC MINORITIES COME TO BE CRIMINALISED AND THEREFORE APPEAR IN GREATER NUMBERS IN THE OFFICIAL STATISTICS
IN GILROY'S VIEW, ETHNIC MINORITY CRIME CAN BE SEEN AS A FORM OF POLITICAL RESISTANCE AGAINST A RACIST SOCIETY AND THIS RESISTANCE HAS ITS ROOT IN EARLIER STRUGGLES AGAINST BRITAIN IMPERIALISM
GILROY ARGUES THAT THE IDEA OF BLACK CRIMINALITY IS A MYTH CREATED BY RACIST STEREOTYPES OF AFRICAN CARIBBEAN'S AND ASIANS. IN REALITY, THESE GROUPS ARE NO MORE CRIMINAL THAN EACH OTHER
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C = LEA AND YOUNG ARGUE THAT ASIAN CRIMES RATES ARE SIMILAR TO LOWER THAN WHITES. THEREFORE, IF GILROY WAS RIGHT THEN THE POLICE ARE ONLY RACIST TOWARDS BLACK AND NOT ASIANS,W HICH SEEMS UNLIKELY
NEO-MARXISTS: HALL
THE MYTH OF THE BLACK MUGGER SERVED AS A SCAPEGOAT TO DISTRACT ATTENTION FROM THE TRUE CAUSE OF PROBLEMS - SUCH AS UNEMPLOYMENT
THE BLACK MUGGER SYMBOLISES THE DISINTEGRATION OF THE SOCIAL ORDER. BY PRESENTING BLACKS AS A THREAT TO THE FABRIC OF SOCIETY, THE MORAL PANIC SERVED TO DIVIDE THE WORKING CLASS ON RACIAL GROUNDS AND WEAKEN OPPOSITION TO CAPITALISM, AS WELL AS WINNING POPULAR CONSENT FOR MORE AUTHORITARIAN FORMS OF RULE THAT COULD BE USED TO SUPPRESS OPPOSITION
HALL ET AL ARGUES THAT THE EMERGENCE OF THE MORAL PANIC IN THE 1970s ABOUT MUGGING, A SPECIFICALLY BLACK CRIME, WAS A CRSIS OF CAPITALISM - NO COINCIDENCE
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