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Ethnicity & crime - Coggle Diagram

- - - - Marginalisation - non-utilitarian crime
      - Relative depravation - utilitarian crime
      - stats reflect real difference in offending
  - - - Ethnic minority crimes - resistance against racism
        
        Ev: most crime is intra-ethnic, 1st gen immigrants were law-abiding, Asians have a similar/lower rates of offending than whites
  - - - Ev: doesn't prove that the public was panicked/blaming crime on blacks, mugging should be concerning for inner-city dwellers
  - - - young blacks more likely to live in poor areas
  - - - Easy to identify
- - - - Police racism
      - Ethnic differences in offending
        
        Low discretion/high discretion
      - Demographic factor
  - - - Evidence is based on stereotypes
      - If case goes ahead - trial before jury
        
        Mistrust of magistrate
  - - - Police bring less serious cases against minorities
    - - Seriousness of the offence/previous convictions
      - Black men - more likely to receive custodial sentence, longer sentence
- - - - Macpherson Enquiry
- - - - Asians - 6.5% of the population, 7.7% of the prison population
  - - - Ev: only covers personal crimes, relies on victim's memory