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Many people do think that much of the crime that is committed in society are committed by the ethnic minorities, but why is this?
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Context Many people do think that much of the crime that is committed in society are committed by the ethnic minorities, but why is this? The metropolitan police say that 'rates of crime committed by the blacks are below that of the white percentage, Asian crime is well below.' This supports my aim stated in my rationale as it states that the ethnic minorities do not commit the majority of crime so any ideas of the public would have to come from somewhere. In 'the myth of black criminality' by Paul Gilroy and Stuart Hall they argue that there is an over representation of black crime in the media compared to the national statistics. This means that there is a racist tendency by the media to over represent blacks. Cohen (1973) says that the media manufactures folk devils and therefore moral panics by exaggerating the coverage of an incidence and therefore increasing...
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