Ethnicity And Crime Flashcards
What is Gilroy’s view? (PC)
Political Crime - His view is that ethnic minority crime can be seen as a form of political resistance of a racial society.
What do Lea & Young say? (UC +N-UC)
Utilitarian Crime - Crime which is based around money.
Non-utilitarian Crime - Crime which is not based around money, this may be based around ethnicity, beliefs and Status (Masculinity).
What is Institutional Racism? Give an example.
Institutional racism is racism that occurs in a large institution such as the police a prime example of this is the Stephen Laurence case.
State four key facts on the Stephen Lawrence case?
1) Is was a racist based attack on Stephen by a white gang.
2) The police were accused of institutional racism.
3) The case was not solved till over 10 years after.
4) Prime example of Ethnicity and crime.
What is the Left Realist viewpoint on Ethnicity and Crime? (Real)
The Statistics on ethnic minorities and the rates of crime they commit represent real differences in the rates of offending.
What is the Neo-Marxism viewpoint and who are the two main sociologists? G+H SC
The statistics are a social construct resulting from racist labelling and discrimination in the criminal justice system.
Gilroy and Hall et al
Give one criticism of Gilroy? (Eng = As)
Asian crime rates are similar to or lower than whites, if Gilroy were right then the police are only racist to the blacks and are not to Asians, which seems very unlikely.
