victimisation

• racist victimisation


  when an individual is selected as a target because of their race, ethnicity or religion

  e.g macpherson report, Central Park 5

  leads to miscarriage of justice
• sources of racial victimisation

  1. victim surveys e.g CSEW
  2. Police recorded statistics
• CSEW (2019/20) found that black people were more likely than white people to be victims of violent crimes
• 2019/20

  • 76,000 race hate crime
  • 6,800 religious hate crimes
• unreported crimes

  • most incidents go unreported
  • CSEW estimates there were actually 104,000 racial hate crimes
• Sampson and phillips

  • state racist victimisation tends to be ongoing over time
• CSEW shows that people from Mixed ethnic backgrounds had a higher risk (20%) of becoming a victim of crime

  Black (14%), White (13%) or Asian (13%)
• responses to victimisation

  • minority ethnic groups often been active in responding to victimisation
  • e.g fireproof doors, self-defence campaigns
• Minorities are more likely to be victims of crime, while being both over-policed and under-protected.
• macpherson report 1999

  • concluded that death of Stephen Lawrence was due to a combination of police incompetence, institutional racism and failure of leadership from senior officers