Patterns in Youth Deviance: Ethnicity

Question 1

Who commits the most crimes overall?

Answer 1

Youths from white British backgrounds

Question 2

Which ethnicity is a disproportional number in the criminal justice system?

Answer 2

African-Caribbean youths

Question 3

How do Home Office statistics support this view about a disproportional number?

Answer 3

Young people from a black ethnic background accounted for 21% of young people in custody in 2012/2013

Question 4

What does the Home Office statistics suggest about Asians in Britain and crime?

Answer 4

An increase in crime rates among Asians. Arrest rates rose by 13% in 2005/2006 and 2009/2010

Question 5

What do these patterns and trends show?

Answer 5

There is a discrepancy in how black and white young offenders are dealt with

Question 6

What do Lea and Young state about this?

Answer 6

Statistics miss out the point that most UK crime is ‘intra-racial’. Once this is understood, explanations can be sought from within the black community