Who are the relevant Left Realist(LR) sociologists that make the argument for the difference in crime rates within ethnic groups?
Lea and Young
Taylor, Walton and Young
Gilroy and Hall
Hernstein and Murray
What key word fits is the following definition: The media promotes consumerism and the need to meet material goals which members of ethnic minorities are unable to achieve legitimately
Marginalisation
Relative Deprivation
Subculture
What key word fits the following description: Racism leads to ... and economic exclusion of ethnic minorities which means that they have higher levels of unemployment, poverty and poor housing.
Retreatist
Innovation
What key word fits the following description: young unemployed black boys may find themselves in delinquent "squads" and therefore commit high levels of utilitarian crime and groups that feel marginalised with no organisation to represent their interests explain non-utilitarian crimes such as violence and vandalism.
Ritualism
Conflict
What does Gilroy postulate?
That Official Statistics are accurate in their portrayal of black people committing more crime than other groups
That the media gives the impression that the police are more effective at doing their jobs than they really are
That there is a myth of black criminality created by racist stereotypes
That it's the biological difference that make some people more likely to commit crime - for example some people innately aggressive and willing to take risks.
Gilroy postulates that the first generation of immigrants were very law abiding and so were unlikely to pass down a tradition of anti-colonial struggle
The saw a media driven about the supposed growth of a 'new' crime - - apparently committed by youths. In reality there was no of a significant in this crime at the time. The myth of the was used as a scapegoat in order to the attention from the of society's problems e.g.
