institutional racism explanations

Question 1

what does the MacPherson report explain?

Answer 1

-stephen lawrence murder
-policies and practices systematically target and disadvantage ethnic minority
-blck people stop and searched 7x more likely than white people

Question 2

what does stopwatch explain?

Answer 2

-police use their powers under section 60
-police can stop people under without a reasonable suspicion
-DODD says police can use their beliefs and stereotypes to decide who’s worth stopping
-blck people 26.6x more likely to be stopped than white people

Question 3

what does philips and bowling say?

Answer 3

-members of ethnic minority more likely to think they are over policed and under protected
-limited faith in police

Question 4

what does flood page explain?

Answer 4

-levels of offending by white and black males are very similar
-when it comes to drug offences , white males consistently report higher levels of drug offences than black males yet
-white males are unreprsented for these offences
-blck over represented

Question 5

evaluation of labelling and institutional racism explanations

Answer 5

-too male streamed, doesn’t focus on females
-realists say crime is voluntary people choose to commit crime
-right realists say in families there’s a lack of male role models
-moral panic may be the reason
-drill may be a cause
-poverty, relative dep, excluded from schl
-some areas more discriminating than others - cannot generalise
-ethnic minority normally younger

Question 6

(the secret police man)
what evidence is there that the police are institutionally racist ?

Answer 6

-use discriminatory terms but aren’t dealt with severely
-conversations are very racist

Question 7

what is the issue with using the secret policeman as a documentary as data?

Answer 7

-outdated
-ethical issues
-under representative - one police force studied