ethnicty sociologists Flashcards
Reiner
-Canteen culture= creates racist values
-came after Stephen lawrence and MacPherson enquiry
-Runnymede trust= more minorities in policing (only 4%)
philips and bowling
Stop & search stats= based upon stereotypes and demographic factors
Ministry of Justice
Black ppl over represented in prisons & more likely to be imprisoned, white ppl may serve longer sentences
Leah and Young (left realists)
-hard for racism to be whole reason for differences & would have to be selective to skew figures
-look at social causes for black ppl committing crime
-black ppl exp marginalisation/ relative dep/ subcultures
Gilroy
-crime by black ppl is due to political action in response to inequality & is part of legacy of resistance against racist police
-early migrants from jamaica resisted police racism
Hall et al (neo-marxism)
-moral panic is caused at times of instability and the govt/media/ police look for scapegoats to put the blame on
-done so hegemony can be used
-black youth seen as a threat which increased resistance in black community
-e.g. 1970s muggings
black % of pop and criminal stats
-3% pop
-18% stop and search
-8.3% arrests
-11% of prison pop
self report stats
-42% of white committed crime in their life
-28% of black
factors left realists see as affecting stats
-medias influence on consumerism
-young black men exp cultural inclusion but econ exclusion
-90% of crimes reported by public
etv of left realism
-lack relevance
-underestimate impact of racism on cjs
-white wc aren’t disproportionate in stats
leah and young (etv of gilroy)
-interracial crime= black on black is most common committed by black ppl
-romanticising= ignores harm crime does to victims
etv of hall et al
-doesn’t research motivations of black youth
-association of crime and black youth has continued beyond ‘crisis of capitalism’ so scapegoats aren’t necessary
+2008 banking crisis led to concern abt migrants
