TOPIC 6
Racism in CJS Racism in CJS pt2
- Policing ; many allegations of oppressive - Trial ;
policing of minority ethnic grps When cases do go ahead ethnic minorities may opt for
trial with jury instead of magistrates perhaps due to the
- Stop and search ; members of ethnic distrust of magistrates impartiality
Victim surveys minorities are more likely to be stopped and
searched. Police can use this power if they - Convictions ;
- we can gain info about ethnicity and have reasonable suspicion Black and asians less likely to be found guilty,
offending from such surveys when they ask - Compared to white ppl black ppl are 7 times suggesting discrimination with the CPS bringing weaker
victims to identify the ethnicity of the person more likely to be stopped and searched or less serious cases towards ethnic minorities
who committed the crime asian ppl twice as likely
- Some surveys also show that most crimes is - Pre sentence reports ;
intra-ethnic that means that it mostly takes - Explain stop and search ; Police racism = One reason for harsher sentences is the PSR written by
place within ethnicities rather than against
Bowling point out that many of cers hold probation of cers
them
negative stereotypes about ethnics leading to Bramhall argue that PSR allow for unwitting
deliberate stops discrimination
- Limits - Ethnic diff in offending = alt explanation is
Rely on v. Memory of events
that stop and search simply re ect ethnic diff - Prison ;
Whites may over identify criminal as black even
in offending, hard to distinguish between low Just over 1/4 of population of prisons were from ethnic
if they re not sure
discretion and high discretion minorities
Only cover personal crime - Low = acting with reasonable intent Blacks were 5 times more likely to be in prison than
Exclude organisation crime - High = police act w/o intelligence whites
Victim survey only tell us ethnicity on small no. - Demographic diff = ethnics are over-rep in Black and asian likely to spend longer in prison than
of crimes
the population grps who are most likely to be white
stopped. Minority grps more likely to be on remand as bail is not
- These grps are all more likely to be stopped offered
not because of race
Self report
- Arrest and caution ;
- self report surveys ask people to report their Explaining diff in offending
Figures for England and Wales show that
own dishonest and violent behaviour - Left realism = stats represent real differences in rates
arrests for blacks was 3.6 times the rate for
- The ndings of self reporting challenge the of offending
whites, once arrested black and asians were
stereotype of black ppl as being more likely -
less likely than whites to receive a caution
than whites to offend, support that asians are - Neo - Marxism = the stats are just a social construct
least likely to offend
- Prosecution ; resulting from racist labelling and discrimination in the
- Evidence is inconsistent CJS
CPS is responsible for deciding whether a case
brought by the police should be prosecuted,
CPS more likely to drop case if ethnic
fi ’ fi flfi
Racism in CJS Racism in CJS pt2
- Policing ; many allegations of oppressive - Trial ;
policing of minority ethnic grps When cases do go ahead ethnic minorities may opt for
trial with jury instead of magistrates perhaps due to the
- Stop and search ; members of ethnic distrust of magistrates impartiality
Victim surveys minorities are more likely to be stopped and
searched. Police can use this power if they - Convictions ;
- we can gain info about ethnicity and have reasonable suspicion Black and asians less likely to be found guilty,
offending from such surveys when they ask - Compared to white ppl black ppl are 7 times suggesting discrimination with the CPS bringing weaker
victims to identify the ethnicity of the person more likely to be stopped and searched or less serious cases towards ethnic minorities
who committed the crime asian ppl twice as likely
- Some surveys also show that most crimes is - Pre sentence reports ;
intra-ethnic that means that it mostly takes - Explain stop and search ; Police racism = One reason for harsher sentences is the PSR written by
place within ethnicities rather than against
Bowling point out that many of cers hold probation of cers
them
negative stereotypes about ethnics leading to Bramhall argue that PSR allow for unwitting
deliberate stops discrimination
- Limits - Ethnic diff in offending = alt explanation is
Rely on v. Memory of events
that stop and search simply re ect ethnic diff - Prison ;
Whites may over identify criminal as black even
in offending, hard to distinguish between low Just over 1/4 of population of prisons were from ethnic
if they re not sure
discretion and high discretion minorities
Only cover personal crime - Low = acting with reasonable intent Blacks were 5 times more likely to be in prison than
Exclude organisation crime - High = police act w/o intelligence whites
Victim survey only tell us ethnicity on small no. - Demographic diff = ethnics are over-rep in Black and asian likely to spend longer in prison than
of crimes
the population grps who are most likely to be white
stopped. Minority grps more likely to be on remand as bail is not
- These grps are all more likely to be stopped offered
not because of race
Self report
- Arrest and caution ;
- self report surveys ask people to report their Explaining diff in offending
Figures for England and Wales show that
own dishonest and violent behaviour - Left realism = stats represent real differences in rates
arrests for blacks was 3.6 times the rate for
- The ndings of self reporting challenge the of offending
whites, once arrested black and asians were
stereotype of black ppl as being more likely -
less likely than whites to receive a caution
than whites to offend, support that asians are - Neo - Marxism = the stats are just a social construct
least likely to offend
- Prosecution ; resulting from racist labelling and discrimination in the
- Evidence is inconsistent CJS
CPS is responsible for deciding whether a case
brought by the police should be prosecuted,
CPS more likely to drop case if ethnic
fi ’ fi flfi
