Ethnicity and crime A02 examples

• black people in england and wales are nine times more likely to be stopped and searched by police than white people (Guardian 2020)
• black people are 18 times more likely to be stopped under section 60 than white people (Guardian 2022)
• black people are three times more likely to be detained than white people (guardian 2020)
• the proportion of stop and searches conducted on white suspects had decreased by almost 20% in the year 2014-2015 but in 2018 in decreased for all ethnic minorities. (Ministry of justice 2018)
• In 2018 two thirds of children arrested in london were from ethnic minority backgrounds (ministry of justice 2018)
• In 2019, 6% of judges identified belonging to a BAME background (uk parliment 2020)
• BAME individuals in the year 2019 accounted for 21% of people convicted of a crime (uk parliment 2020)
• Asian offenders where 41% more likely to recieve a custodial sentence than white offenders in regards to drug offences ( guardian 2011)
• The prison population is disproportionately made up of ethnic minorities with 26% being black or Asian (Prison reform trust 2019)
• Black prisoners are twice as likely to have been sentenced for drugs offences than white prisoners (prison reform trust 2019)
• Black men are 3 times as likely to be stopped and searched compared to white males (stopwatch 2017)
• in 2017 black men were 3x as likely to receive a custodial sentence compared to white males ( Ministry of Justice 2017)