Ethnicity and Crime Flashcards
To identify patterns of offending using recent statistics To answer questions about a documentary- an example of institutional racism. To explore how crime statistics may be socially constructed.
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What does disproportionality mean?
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2
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Policing - stop and search stats
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3
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Policing - arrests
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Black men were 2.4x as likely to be arrested as White men
There were 21.2 arrests for every 1,000 black people
There were 9 arrests for every 1,000 White people
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Disproportionality
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Overpolicing and __ of ethnic minorities
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