Ethnicity patterns and trends

• Youth deviance


  Home office statistics show that young people from black ethnic backgrounds account for 21% of youth deviance
• Stop and Search

  Home office states that young black men are 7x more likely to be stopped and searched by police over white males
• Increase in crime rates


  Asians make up 5% of the population but accounted of 10% of all stops and searches - the largest of any ethnic group
• Lea and Young


  Statistics don't show that most crime in the UK is intra-racial, meaning it takes place within ethnic communities.