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Ethnicity, Crime and Justice - Topic 6 - Coggle Diagram
Ethnicity, Crime and Justice - Topic 6
General Patterns Found in Offical Statistics
- Black and Asian people are over-represented in the system.
- Black people make up 3% of the population but 13.1% of the prison population.
- Asians make up 6.5% of the population but 7.7% of the prison population.
- White people are under-represented at all stages of the criminal justice process.
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Deprivation/Neighbourhood
- Fitzgerald found that rates were highest in very poor areas, where deprived young people came into contact with more affluent groups.
- Young black people were more likely to live in these areas and to be poor.
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- White people affected by these factors were also more likely to commit street crime, so ethnicity is not the only cause.
- But black people may be more likely to live in poor areas because of racial discrimination in the job and housing market.
Getting Caught
- Some groups have a greater risk of being caught.
- Black offenders were more likely than white offenders to have been related.
- They are more likely to commit crime such as robbery, where victims can identify them.
Ethnicity and Risk of Victimisation
- Police recorded 54k racist incidents in 2015, mostly damage to property or verbal harassment but most of them go unreported as CSEW claim there's 89k.
- Racist crimes can vary by ethnic group, mixed ethnic backgrounds had a higher risk of falling a victim.
- There are other factors involved as young male and unemployed had a strong link with victimisation.
Statistics record the instances of victimisation but they dont capture the victims experience of it.
- Racist incidents to be ongoing, with repeated minor instances of abuse and harrassment and incidents of physical violence.
- This causes long-term psychological impact.
Responses to Victimisation
- Members of minority ethnic communities have been active in responding to victimisation, e.g. situational crime prevention measures like fireproof doors, letter boxes and campaigns against racist attacks.