ethnicity and crime
- Created by: Matthew Holmes
- Created on: 28-03-13 14:32
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- ethnicity and crime
- racism
in wider society
- crisis
in capitalism
- Hall- ethnic minorities being used as scapegoat
- cultural
resistance
- a higher number of petty crime such as vandalism and shoplifting.
- the
ethnic minorities are excluded
- Rex Noon- job applications
- crisis
in capitalism
- racist practices of the police force
- canteen
culture
- cynical of the ethnic minorities- Reiner and/or holdaway
- institutional racism
- Lawrence case, where the victim’s parents were treated as lower class and Steve’s friend Dwayne as an offender rather than a victim.
- statistical artifact approach
- Fitzgerald- police are more likely to record crime of ethnic minorities more than whites and also record them as more serious when they have the same reports as white crime
- canteen
culture
- real
differences in offending
- social
characteristics
- Mayhew- most
crime is performed by young males who tend to come from a more working class
background
- young working class males are over-represented by ethinic minoritites
- Mayhew- most
crime is performed by young males who tend to come from a more working class
background
- left
realism approaches
- Lea and Young- British population marginalise ethnic minorities
- social
characteristics
- racism
in wider society
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