ethnicity and crime

Question 1

OCS are accurate - lea and young

Answer 1

crime caused by relative deprivation, marginalisation and s/cs

e/ms more likely to be unemployed so suffer relative deprivation - can’t afford consumer products promoted by the media - respond by forming s/cs which lead to utilitarian crimes like robbery and theft.

e/ms tend to be marginalised so lack organisation to represent views in society - feel frustrated - leads to non-utilitarian crimes such as violence.

argue police methods not based on police stereotypes. as black people have higher rates of criminalisation than asians, police are not racist.

Question 2

lea and young criticism

Answer 2

possible police stereotype asian and black people differently

Question 3

OCS are inaccurate - gilroy

Answer 3

black criminality = myth created by racist stereotypes and CJS is racist - over-represent black people as criminals

in former british colonies black people resisted british empire and fought for independence, once they came to UK and faced racism they used same resistance methods to fight against racism - black crime is form of political resistance against racist society

Question 4

gilroy evaluation

Answer 4

1st gen immigrants were law abiding so couldn’t have passed on resistance methods to their children

Question 5

OCS are inaccurate - holdaway

Answer 5

institutional racism - police officers developed distinctive working values and prejudices as result of nature of their job which are passed on through canteen culture

police work is often dangerous and unpredictable so officers develop culture to help deal with this where there’s jokes used to cement solidarity and a thirst for conservatism and racism - impacts police practice

Question 6

OCS are accurate - new right

Answer 6

murray most black children brought up in LPFs - fail to socialise so children fail in edu and turn to crime