Is The Judicial System Racist?
Introduction
In Britain today there are 55 million people, of this 5% are Afro
Caribbean, and 2% are Asian. This would mean the prison population
should be 2% Asian, and 25% Afro Caribbean, but it is not, the actual
figures are 13% Afro Caribbean and 7% Asian. Why is the prison
population not a reflection of the ethnicity of Britain? Is it because
of society, the police, or the actual ethnic group? To find out what
is the cause, I will carry out research of my own and use previously
obtained figures. The difficulties that I might run into while
carrying out my research are that figures that I collect may not be up
to date. Other difficulties that I will run into are that people will
not have answered truthfully as they do not want to be seen as the odd
one so go along with the majority of answers, or do not want to say
that they have committed crimes. Another problem will be that the
government figures separate the ethnic groups into 'Asian', 'White',
'Afro Caribbean' and 'Other' which means I will have to use those
categories to group people as well.
Secondary Research
Home Office figures
The Home Office figures show me that of the 55 million people in the
country 2% are Asian and 5 % are Afro Caribbean. Of the 2 million
people arrested 16% are Afro Caribbean, and 7% are Asian. Also the
figures show me that more then half (58%) of all Afro Caribbean
arrests come from the metropolitan police area. A reason for this
could be that when people emigrate from a foreign country they may not
speak the language or have any qualifications. When they arrive they
normally settle around their ow...
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...home office uses these. This limited my research too as I had to use
those 4 groups when I found information. I think I used enough
statistics and the questionnaire was of ample size. I believe I
explained my beliefs and the facts in a good combination to answer the
question 'Is the Judicial System Racist' And if I had to give an
answer I would say yes, but it is not so much racism as a combination
of other things with racism (in my mind) being the biggest part.
However it is not traditional racism as the Judicial Force does not
'hate' any race they just follow the stereotypes of their society and
they are that Afro Caribbean's commit the most crime, so they are
stopped more often, meaning they are arrested more often.
Bibliography
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