1 - Institutional Racism

• Institutional Racism


  This is the prejudice against ethnic minorities within an organisation especially police or criminal justice system
• There is a large difference between ethnic minorities and white people imprisoned, searched and sentenced in statistics
• The Macpherson Report (1999)


  Disagrees with the Scarman report that institutional racism no longer exists in Britain. It is widespread. This is not an implication that policies are racist but a collective failure to provide appropriate services to people because of skin colour, culture or origin.
• Macpherson Report (1999)


  This collective failure can be seen in the unwitting prejudice, ignorance, thoughtlessness and racial stereotyping in Britain today.
• In 1998/99, Black people were 6x and Asians 2x likely to be stopped and searched than white people. They hide behind their badges of law enforcement leniences like 'reasonable discretion'
• Clancy et al (2001) suggests when the report first came out ethnic discrimination had fallen but Official statistics indicate the fall was short lived
• A black person is 5 times more likely to be pulled over than a white person.
• Inequality of opportunity
• Stuart Hall (1970) - Policing the Crisis