Ethnicity and Crime - Trends In Offending and Victimisation | A Level Sociology

welcome to this tutor to you sociology topic video looking at ethnicity and crime focusing on Trends in offending and victimization one of the issues with monitoring ethnicity in relation to crimes committed is that not all crimes are solved and particularly those where the offender is not seen such as property damage and burglary make it

difficult to obtain accurate data for the ethnicity of offenders and as such statistics can be inaccurately recorded one measure that is used in determining ethnicity of the offender is through the number of arrests made by police and the rate of imprisonment however both of these measures can be influenced by issues such as institutional racism and the

different priorities of individual police forces all of which gives us a somewhat skewed picture of ethnicity and offending that is somewhat open to interpretation by sociologists it is one of the disadvantages on relying upon quantitative data when looking at the differences in offending by ethnicity now the graphic shows some of the headlines taken from the ministry of

Justice's quarterly statistics for December 2019 and this focuses on some of the headline rates for those from a B background as we can see 16% of the population identify as belonging to a black Asian or minority ethnic group and in this video we'll break this down further into separate ethnic groups however 23% of arrests are of

people from B background which means they are over represented in arrest statistics and this highlights a trend throughout other measures of offending 24% of those remanded by magistrates court and 26% of those by Crown Court are of B background 23% of people prosecuted and 21% of those convicted are B whilst 22% of those sentenced and 27%