Key Trends & Statistics

Question 1

key trends in official stats (3)

Answer 1

• young, black men over-represented at all stages of CJS
• young, black men x7 more likely to experience stop and search
• british-asians generally under-represented

Question 2

Key trends in victim surveys (2)

Answer 2

• victims tend to be same ethnic group as offender = intra-racial
• ethnic minorities more fearful than yt people

Question 3

Key trends in self-report studies (2)

Answer 3

• relatively equal distribution of crime across all ethnic groups
• indicates a bias in ehtnic representation official police data

Question 4

possible ways of explaining ethnic differences in patterns of offending? (2) just name them not definitions

Answer 4

• structural explanations
• social constructionist explanations

Question 5

Structural explanations

Answer 5

• accepting that crime stats are largely correct and there are real ethnic differences in crime
  -due to the way society is structured to systematically disadvantage poc

Question 6

social constructionist explanation (2)

Answer 6

• tend to reject reliability and validity of crime stats and view them as presenting false, misleading impressions of ethnicity and crime
• the way in which data is produced makes it seem like some ethnic groups commit more crime, when they don’t.