Explaining the relationship between ethnicity and crime pt2

Question 1

What was Nightingales study on the relationship between ethnicity and crime ?

Answer 1

• Black criminality in Philadelphia
• Crime is a consequence of poverty, racism, unemployment and the glorification of violence
• crime is a reasonable response to racial exclusion of legitimate paths to achieving goals

Question 2

How can racism create criminality - Lea and Young ?

Answer 2

• accept that racism exists
• believes official statistics accurately represent the official statistics of crime
• minority ethnic trends are real so need to be explained and understood
• racism creates the resistance and criminality

Question 3

What did Lea and Young think of moral panics ?

Answer 3

• criticises moral panics surrounding black crime
• media headlines are misleading and inaccurate when looking at black crime
• E.g the sun, ‘BLACK CRIME SHOCK’

Question 4

What did Gilroy say about the myth of criminality ?

Answer 4

• neo marxist
• scares of colonialism + imperialism has created a culture of resistance against racism
• race riots in London were a pushback against racism by the police (70s and 80s)
• Blaming black muggers and creating a moral panic around ethnicity helps political campaigns
• Justifies labelling and control

Question 5

What did Palmer say about the relationship between ethnicity and crime ?

Answer 5

• the culture of the media has contributed to racism and criminality
• racism may not be the direct cause of crime
• media does have an impact on ethnic minorities self-image and others that are similar to them

Question 6

Why have Asians always historically committed less crime than other ethnic groups ?

Answer 6

• strong family values and socialisation
• not fitting the police stereotype of a criminal

Question 7

What did Fitzgerald and Sibbit say about Asian crime ?

Answer 7

They said that official crime statistics don’t show all of the potential crime patterns due to them banding all asian minorities together

Question 8

What did Bowling. Phillips and Palmer say about asian crime ?

Answer 8

• said that the stereotypes were pliable
• conformist perceptions have changed
• Law abiding behaviour has changed
• promoting criminal and deviant activity

Question 9

What did Abbas say about asian crime ?

Answer 9

• the passive asian stereotype has provided a gateway to Islamophobia
• Concerns of radicalisation has led to targeting by the police
• Now more stop and searches and harsher punishments from the courts