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ethnicity + crime - Coggle Diagram
ethnicity + crime
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criminal justice, ethnicity and racism
policing
Newburn = there have been a great deal of controversy over relationships between police and minority ethnic groups
A02 the handling of the investigation into the murder of Stephen Lawrence - despite good evidence, the police initially failed to successfully prosecute those responsible
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Graham + Bowling = found that Blacks (43%) and Whites (44%) had similar and almost identical rates of crime, but Asians actually had lower rates.
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offending, sentencing and punishment
official statistics
based on information provided by the police and courts - showing that ethnic minority groups are more likely to be arrested and convicted of crime than the white majority
while the black population makes up just 3.1 per cent of the population, they make up a much higher proportion of those stopped and searched, arrested, or sent to prison
ethnic minorities are more than twice as likely as white people to be arrested and convicted of an offence, and almost 3x more likely to be sent to prison
self-report studies
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the highest rates of offending where found among whites with 42% admitting an offence, compared to 28% of black ethnicity
data suggests that there is some bias in criminal justice because, overall whites appear to be more likely to offend than blacks, but blacks are much more likely to be convicted
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