Zusammenfassung der Ressource
Ethnicity and crime
- Reasons for high criminality
of afro carribean (structural)
- Lea and Young (Left Realists)
- First people to
acknowledge Black people
are more likely to be
involved in street crime then
whites
- Reasons
- Marginilisation
- Relative deprivation
- Sub cultural response
- Family structure- Murray- only 60% of young
black males live with just
one parent normally the
mother
- Mass Media- According to new right and
conservative thinkers 'rap music'
encourages 'Bling, violence and
criminality'
- However according to Interactionists official
statistics are a 'social construction'
- Hall, Gilroy, holdaway: only tell
us about the involvement with
the criminal justice system which
is a reflecting of policing strategy
and discrimination
- Functionalism educational success- 2006 only
23% of afro carribean boys got 5 GCSES.
- Subcultural theorists
- Cohen,
Cloward and
ohlin
- Merton
- Macpherson report and 'Insitutional Racisim'
- 'Canteen Culture' -Holdaway. Amongst
the police including suspicion, macho
values, and racism which encourages
racist stereotypes and a mistrust of
people from non-white backgrounds
- Case study: Stephen Lawrence
- Policing 'opressive policing' Ethnic
minorities are more likely to be stopped
and searched Phillips and Bowling
- Phillips and Bowling officers are more
likely to hold negative stereotypes about
ethnic minorities reinforced by canteen
culture
- Neo Marxism - Hall saw a moral panic over
black muggers that served at the interests of
capitalism (at a time of crisis)
- The myth of of the black mugger
served as a scapegoat and divided
the lower classes this weakened
the opposition to Capitalism
- Criticisms- inner city residents fears of
mugging are realistic (left realism)
- interpretivism
- Labelling
- Deviancy amplification spiral