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ethnicity and crime - Coggle Diagram
ethnicity and crime
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Explanations
Left realism
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Do not believe that discriminatory policing fully explains differences in statistics, bc 90% crimes reported by civilians
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Crit: police stereotype diff groups; blacks are dangerous, asians are passive
Neo- Marxism
Gilroy : myth of black criminality, a result of CJS acting on racist stereotypes, making them over-represented in stats
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Anti-imperialist, political struggle
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Hall: moral panic; black muggers, class crisis, capitalism, scapegoat for unemployment
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inner-city, realistic fear
Other
Fitzgerald: crime rates higher in poor communities. blacks more likely to live in poor communities= higher rate of crime
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criminalisation
statistics
Self report studies:
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Sharp and Budd note that those of mixed ethnic origins were most likely to say they committed an offence (40%), followed by blacks (28%) and Asians (21%)
27% of males of mixed ethnic origin said they had used drugs in the last year, compared to 16% of both black and white males and 5% of asian males.
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Evidence on ethnicity and offending is inconsistent; while official statistics and victim surveys point to the likelyhood of higher rates of offending by blacks, this is generally not borne out by the results of self-report studies
Victim surveys:
According to Phillips and Bowling, evidence suggests that white victims may 'over-identify' black people- saying the offender was black despite them not actually being sure
Victim surveys only cover personal crimes, which only make up about a fifth of crime
Official statistics
Home Office: in a table for arrests for notifiable offences by ethnic appearance, in totality, whites commited most crime (87%), followed by blacks (7.3%) and asians (4.0%)
However, another study done on the percentage of ethnic groups at different stages of the criminal process, while black people only make up 1.8% of the population, they make up 8.2% of stop and searches. This suggests that black people may be over-represented in the criminal justice system.
Moreover, while Whites make up 85.2% of stop and searches (out of 94.5% of the population), they make up 87% of arrests. This suggests that the police might be under policing white people; this is further seen as they make up 81.2% of the prison populations
Asian people on the other hand, while making up 2.7% of the population they make up 3% of the prison population, are 4.4% of the stop and searches.