Ethnicity & Crime
Published on Nov 26, 2015
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Questions of ethnicity and gender were barely looked at by sociologists of crime and deviance until the 1970's.
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Members of ethnic minority groups were no more likely to be offenders / victims than the majority white population
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The Black population made up 1.8% of the Uk's total population but made up 12.1% of the prison population
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WHY????!!
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Assume that ethnic minorities are more prone to being involved in criminal activity, than white Caucasian people which reflected in official statistic
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Possible effects of labelling ethnic minorities can lead to assumptions being made about certain classes/ethnic backgrounds.
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Many theories of deviance are based on Official statistics by the government.. But, some social groups appear to be more involved with crime than others, namely "ETHNIC MINORITIES"
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Self-report studies indicates that there may be "police bias" against ethnic minority.
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Policeman are 5x more likely to arrests or stop a person of an ethnic minority on suspicious of drug related crime, than stopping a white person.
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It backups the idea of " the canteen culture"whereby police officers are openly racists when off duty!!
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