Ethnic Inequality: CJS

Question 1

Ethnic Inequality: CJS
Statistics

Answer 1

MINISTRY OF JUSTICE - Black people (compared to white people):

• 7x more likely to be stopped and searched
• 5x more likely to be arrested
• 3.5x more likely to be arrested
  ⭐0.19% of the white population is in the CJS
  ⭐1.7% of the black population is in the CJS

Question 2

Ethnic Inequality: CJS
Macpherson Report

Answer 2

Police = guilty of institutional racism

• Nobody was prosecuted for the murder of a black teenager, Stephen Lawrence

Question 3

Ethnic Inequality: CJS
Skolnick

Answer 3

CANTEEN CULTURE - Racist cultural attitudes reinforced by subcultural attitudes within the police force
→ Policies such as target hardening where police concentrate resources on pockets of high crime may result in black communities being targeted

Military Policing -
Can cause black community to be resentful of policing methods
- Opposition to military policing can unite black communities into a conference of black people against the police

Question 4

Ethnic Inequality: CJS
Hall

Answer 4

Mugging

Mugging was constructed into a moral panic in 1970s

• Black crime used as an excuse to increase state & police power

Question 5

Ethnic Inequality: CJS
Gilroy

Answer 5

Black criminality = myth

• Police statistics do not reflect the reality of what’s happening on the streets
• Attributed statistical differences in recorded criminality between ethnic groups as being caused by police stereotyping & racist labelling
• Media & police are operating on the stereotype that young black men are more criminal than others