Ethnicity

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Ethnicity Crime
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More statistics

• Once arrested, who is more likely to be held in
  custody and charged with serious offences, black
  or white people?
• Who is more likely to plead not guilty?
• If found guilty, who is more likely to be put in
  prison, white or black?
• Those of an Asian origin are more likely than
  average to plead guilty are they more or less
  likely than other ethnic groups to be imprisoned
  if found guilty?

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So are ethnic minorities discriminated against?

• Bowling Phillips say research indicates
  discrimination does exist.

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• Punishments Proportionately black African
  carribean people are more likely to be put in
  prison.
• In 1998 the rate of White people imprisoned was
  185 per 100,000, for Asian people it was 168 per
  100,000 how many do you think it was for Black
  people per 100,000 guesses please!

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Policing Ethnic Minority groups is the crime
rate a reflection on racist policing or is it
realistic?

• Reality
• Mayhew et al crime is performed by young males
  from poor backgrounds. They say its not because
  of their colour but because a) there are more
  youths in ethnic communities b) Overall ethnic
  minority communities are poorer
• Phillips Browns study of police stations found
  no evidence of any differing treatment of
  prisoners whatever colour they were

• Racist practices?
• See next slide for the following
• Reflection of society approach
• Canteen culture
• Institutional racism

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Racist practices

• Societies approach -The theory of Lord Scarman in
  1981 is that of course some police are racist,
  just like people in society but once these bad
  apples are rooted out the problem will be solved
• Canteen Culture Police officers have a lot of
  stress and pressure so theyve developed a
  culture to deal with it that involves racism.
  Holdaway ( 1983 ) Graef ( 1989 ) found that
  police are racist.
• Institutional Racism Macpherson ( who
  investigated the racist death of Stephen Lawrence
  ) discovered the police procedures, practices
  and a culture that tend to exclude or to
  disadvantage non-white people.The key point is
  that day to day activities of the organization
  are based upon racist ideas and practice. This
  means police might not personally be racist but
  in their job they may have to make assumptions
  about Black males and their likelihood of
  offending.

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Homework

• Finish taking notes up to and including culture
  of resistance