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Direct Racial Discrimination - Coggle Diagram
Direct Racial Discrimination
Stop and Search
Black people are 5x more likely than white people to be stopped + searched
Philips + Bowling
Black + Asian people are also more likely than white people to be stopped and searched repeatedly + more intrusive searches
Members of ethnic minority are more likely to be young, unemployed and live in inner city areas
Arrest + caution
Police see as more suspicious + more likely to commit
Ethnic minorities are less likely to be released after caution
Population as whole is 3.3% compared to blacks who took up 8.3%
Policing
e.g Stephen Lawrence in 1993 - despite good evidence the police failed to prosecute and McPherson found they were institutionally racist
Runnymede Trush + Rollock - Found that there had been extensive attempts to improve policing. However, only 4% of police officers where from ethnic minorities
Prison
Prison stats suggest that direct + indirect racism occurs
In 2012 11% of population in prison were from black ethnic groups compared to 3.3% of population as a whole
6% of population was from Asian groups
Sentencing
Black people were slightly more likely to go to prison for 'actual bodily harm' than white people
Considerably more likely than whites to be sent to prison for possession of class A drugs
Prosecution
Black people were given longer sentences than white people for burglary
Black + Asians are more likely to be given immediate custodial sentence
Black minority ethnic groups are overrepresented in prison