Ethnicity and crime

Question 1

Scranton and Chadwick (police and institutional racism)

Answer 1

• black people are treated as muggers as confirmation of the assumption that immigrants belong to a culture of criminality
• argue that this this ideological construction of black criminality has influenced differential policing and discriminatory punishment in specific neighbourhoods
• evidence from the MacPherson Report: the murder of Stephen Lawrence, concluded that the police force were institutionally racist and as a result they failed to investigate the case