Patterns and Trends in Crime: Ethnicity

Question 1

Offending:

Answer 1

more people from black and Asian backgrounds are stopped and searched, arrested and charged, and sentenced to imprisonment

black people were stopped 7 times more than white people in 2009

Question 2

Bowling and Philips (2006)

Answer 2

point out that the Crown Prosecution Service is more likely to drop cases put forward by the police involving black suspects due to inadequate evidence than any other ethnic groups

Question 3

Chief Police Officers (2008)

Answer 3

found that although new migrants are often linked to crime, their offending rates were in line with the general population showing that they were committing the same amount of crime

Question 4

Victimisation 
Home Office (2005)

Answer 4

found that black people are 5 times more likely tonne murdered than their white counterparts

police records show that in 1 in 3 gun murders, both suspects and victims are black (intra-racial)