Topic 6 - Ethnicity and Crime Flashcards
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Why EMG’s appear more criminal - Lea and Young [3] + C
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- Differences in statistics are the result of black people being discriminated in wider society.
- Utilitarian crime is a response to material deprivation and non-utilitarian crime is due to their frustration towards society.
- Believe police racism is not the main cause of this because 90% of crimes are reported by the public.
C: Arrests rate may be different between black people and Asians because they are stereotyped by police differently
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Why EMG’s appear more criminal - Gilroy [2] + C
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- BME do not commit more crime than others. It is the result of racist policing who act on stereotypes.
- BME often come from former colonies where they resisted oppression. However, when they resisted racism in Britain it was criminalised.
C: First-generation immigrants in 1950s and 1960s were very law-abiding, so unlikely
3
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Why EMG’s appear more criminal - Hall et al [3] + C
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- In the 1970s, there was a moral panic about black people and mugging.
- This is because capitalism was in crisis and they used this story to cover it up.
- Thus, black people were not more criminal but a mere victim of capitalism. However, this made black people more unlikely to get jobs and then turn to crime.
C: Doesn’t show how the capitalist crisis led to a moral panic
4
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Ethnicity statistics [3]
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- Black people 7 times more likely to be stopped and searched than whites
- 3.5x more likely to be arrested
- 5x more likely to be in prison
5
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What is racist victimisation?
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- Occurs when an individual is selected as a target for crime because of their race, ethnicity or religion
6
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What do racist victimisation incidents cover? [2]
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- Racist incidents - Any incident that is perceived to be racist by the victim or another person
- Radically or religiously aggravated offences - where the offender is motivated by hostility towards members of a radical or religious group
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What are the responses to victimisation? [2]
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- Situational crime prevention measures
- Organised self-defence campaigns aimed at physically defending neighbourhoods from racist attacks