Ethnic representations in crime LT9

Question 1

what does victim survey show?

Answer 1

blacks can be over represented as offenders

Question 2

what do statistics show about black people?

Answer 2

Black people are 7 times more likely to be stopped and searched by policing than whites

Question 3

Explaining stop and search patterns

Answer 3

• Police racism
• Ethnic differences in offending
• Demographic factors

Question 4

Macpherson Report: police racism

Answer 4

found clear evidence of institutional racism in the Metropolitan police

Question 5

Ethnic differences in offending

Answer 5

Higher rates of stop and search reflect higher rates of offending amongst some ethnic minority groups

Question 6

Demographic factors

Answer 6

ethnic minorities are more likely to be part of the demographic that is likely to be stopped and searched e.g. young, unemployed and inner city

Question 7

Holdaway

Answer 7

claimed that there was a ‘canteen culture’ that existed within the police force.
He claimed that many officers held prejudicial thoughts

Question 8

Neo marxist view of ethnicity

Answer 8

largely reject ocs seeing them as socially constructed

Question 9

Gilroy: Neo Marxist

Answer 9

argue that black criminality is a myth created by racist stereotypes because of police bias

Question 10

Hall et al

Answer 10

attempts to explain ‘black mugging’ in terms of causes and social construction factor

Question 11

Wider causes

Answer 11

marginalising effects of long term unemployment

Question 12

Immediate causes

Answer 12

Police racism

Question 13

Socail construction

Answer 13

moral panic

Question 14

Left realist view

Answer 14

largely accept official crime statics and therefore do not believe that powerless ethnic minority groups are significantly over represented

Question 15

Left realist causes of ethnic minority

Answer 15

• Marginalisation
• Relative deprivation
• Subcultures

Question 16

Young: Marginalisation

Answer 16

argues in late modernity growing number of black youths findings themselves marginalised because of racism and insecurities

Question 17

Young: Relative deprivation

Answer 17

some blacks often feel worse off than comparable groups and that these feelings of social injustice lead to crime

Question 18

Young: Subcultures

Answer 18

Subcultures emerge in all ethnic communities as a group response to marginalisation and relative deprivation