Ethnicity and crime

• What ethnic minority are more likely to be stopped, searched and arrested?

  Black people
• What percent do black people make up of the UK population in 2022?

  4.2%
• What percent do black people make up of the UK's prison population in 2022?

  13.5%
• What is an argument against the statistics from the CJS on ethnicity and crime?

  The statistics aren't representative as they don't look at how other factors may influence these results
• What do Bowling and Phillips argue about ethnicity and crime?


  That there is institutional racism in the police system as shown by the 1999 McPherson report
• What do Hall and Gilroy argue about ethnicity and crime?


  That crime between black youths are victims of racial stereotyping and are used as a distraction from issues with capitalism
• What are inter-ethnic crimes?


  Crimes committed between minority ethnic groups