Ethnicity and Crime

Question 1

Hudson and Bramhall

Answer 1

Pre-sentencing reports allow for discrimination

Question 2

Phillips and Bowling

Answer 2

Since 1970’s many allegations of oppressive policing of minority ethnic groups/communities

Question 3

Terrorism Act (2000)

Answer 3

Police don’t need a reason to stop and search person/vehicle

Question 4

Sharp and Budd

Answer 4

The 2003 offending, crime and Justice survey found 40% of white people said they’d committed an offence, 28% of black people

Question 5

Phillips and Bowling
(Victim Surveys)

Answer 5

White victims ‘over-identify’ Black suspects

Question 6

Lea and Young
(Left Realism)

Answer 6

Ethnic differences in stats reflect real differences in levels of offending
^ due to relative deprivation

Question 7

Gilory

Answer 7

. Black criminality is myth created by racial stereotypes
. Minority ethnic group crime = form of political resistance, has roots in earlier struggles against British imperialism

Question 8

Hall et al

Answer 8

Moral panic ‘Mugging’
. No evidence of significant growth - associated with Black Youth = became scapegoat to symbolise the disintegration of social order

. Increasing marginalisation drove some unemployed to crime

Question 9

Downes and Rock

Answer 9

Hall et al inconsistent in claiming Black street crime not rising but claims was rising due to unemployment

Question 10

Sampson and Phillips

Answer 10

Racist victimisation tends to be ongoing, repeated minor instances

Question 11

Macpherson Enquiry

Answer 11

Police investigation into black teen Stephen Lawrence was ‘marred, by combo of professional incompetence, institutional racism and failure of leadership