Ethnicity And Crime

Question 1

Graham + Bowling

Answer 1

Self report study:
Black and white people have similar offending rates (43% to 44%)

Question 2

Gilroy

Answer 2

Myth of black criminality:
Stereotypes of black people lead to assumptions about criminality
Crime is a political resistance to the structures, resistance has its roots in British imperialism
When they find themselves up against racism, they turn to similar methods

Question 3

Hall

Answer 3

Black mugger moral panic:
High inflation and unemployment lead to unrest
Distracted with moral panic (Cohen)

Question 4

Murray

Answer 4

Single parents not able to socialise children properly.
Black mothers more likely to be single parents

Question 5

Sewell

Answer 5

Boys to single mothers more likely to join gangs for male role models, love and loyalty

Question 6

MacPherson report

Answer 6

States there is institutional racism in the police force

Question 7

Stephen Lawrence

Answer 7

Murdered by a group of boys in 1993. Inquiry in 1999 leading to the MacPherson report.
Took 19 years for a prosecution

Question 8

Case studies

Answer 8

London riots 2011:
After the fatal shooting of Mark Duggan by police officer

BLM during lockdown:
After the killing of George Floyd by a police officer

Question 9

Statistics on stop and search

Answer 9

Black people are 7 times more likely to be stopped and searched

Question 10

Lea and Young

Answer 10

First gen immigrants are very law abiding so unlikely riot culture has been passed down
Romanticises street crime as revolutionary

Question 11

Cicourel

Answer 11

Typifications of police
Justice is negotiable

Question 12

Becker

Answer 12

Labelling theory

Question 13

Waddington

Answer 13

Police have a canteen culture