crime & deviance- ethnicity

Question 1

Bowling & Phillips

Answer 1

white victims over identify blacks as offenders

Question 2

Graham & Bowling

Answer 2

offending rates among black + white similar (43% + 44%) but lower for asians (between 10-30%)

Question 3

Sharp & Budd

Answer 3

whites + mixed most likely to admit offending, then blacks, then asians

Question 4

MacPherson

Answer 4

police racism- ‘canteen culture’

Question 5

Hood

Answer 5

black sentences 3 months longer than white men + asians 9 months longer

Question 6

Hudson & Bramhall

Answer 6

pre-sentence reports discriminate (less detail on asians, less remorse, 9/11 bias)

Question 7

Lea & Young

Answer 7

left realism- ethnic differences are real differences

Question 8

Gilroy

Answer 8

myth of black criminality (response to british colonialism)

Question 9

Lea & Young

Answer 9

Gilroy romanticises street criminals

Question 10

Hall

Answer 10

policing the crisis of capitalism by scapegoating black muggings

Question 11

Downes & Rock

Answer 11

Hall can’t argue black crime rising but also not rising

Question 12

Fitzgerald

Answer 12

neighbourhood is a factor but can affect whites too so not only ethnic cause

Question 13

Sharp & Budd

Answer 13

blacks get caught easier as usually do robbery where can be identified + have criminal connections

Question 14

Sampson & Phillips

Answer 14

stats not reflect experience of racist crime as crimes are often ongoing/repeated (too snapshotty)