What Factors Influence the Disproportionate Rate of Black Imprisonment?
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Have a little read: ... Deborah Waisome: 9615896 CRM 3040 What Factors Influence the Disproportionate Rate of Black Imprisonment? Within the discipline of criminology the issue of disproportionality within the Prison system has become highly contentious. In seeking to address the issue we come up against difficult conceptual issues as well as a deficit of useful information. The primary conceptual problem is to decide what constitutes fairness in this context. In a Home Office study (1998) Flood-Page and Mackie refer to research showing that ethnic minorities are treated and act in different ways at the key stages in criminal process. For example Afro-Caribbean's are less likely to admit an offence and therefore make them ineligible for a caution. This also means that they are less likely to benefit from the discount for a guilty plea. (Flood-page and Mackie, 1998 cited in Davies et al, 1999, p.264) In their sentencing study based on 3,000 cases in 25 magistrates courts and 1,800
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