Race and crime

Short description: Relationship between race and crime

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Race is one of the correlates of crime receiving attention in academic studies, government surveys, media coverage, and public concern. Research has found that social status, poverty, and childhood exposure to violent behavior are causes of the racial disparities in crime. Research conducted in Europe and the United States on the matter has been widely published, particularly in relation to discrimination by criminal justice systems.

## Contents

* 1 Discrimination by the criminal justice system in Europe
* 2 Discrimination by the criminal justice system in the United States
* 3 See also
* 4 References

## Discrimination by the criminal justice system in Europe

Research suggests that police practices, such as racial profiling, over-policing in areas populated by minorities and in-group bias may result in disproportionately high numbers of racial minorities among crime suspects in Sweden, Italy, and England and Wales. According to the Racial Disparity Audit conducted by the United Kingdom Prime Minister, in 2017 minorities living in Wales and England were more than 3.5 times more likely to be arrested than whites. Likewise, this same group was far more likely to be the victims of crime with their white counterparts only having 15 percent likelihood.[1][2][3][4][5][6][excessive citations] Research also suggests that there may be possible discrimination by the judicial system, which contributes to a higher number of convictions for racial minorities in Sweden, the Netherlands, Italy, Germany , Denmark and France .[2][4][5][7][8][9][10][excessive citations]

## Discrimination by the criminal justice system in the United States

Research suggests that police practices, such as racial profiling, over-policing in areas populated by minorities and in-group bias may result in disproportionately high numbers of racial minorities among crime suspects.[11][12][13][14][excessive citations] Research also suggests that there may be possible discrimination by the judicial system, which contributes to a higher number of convictions for racial minorities.[15][16][17][18][19][20][21][22][excessive citations] On average, white offenders are less likely to be arrested for their crime than non-white offenders. [23]

## See also

* Crime in the United States
* Immigration and crime
* Incarceration in the United States
* Race and crime in the United States
* Race and inequality in the United States
* Racial profiling
* Racism in the United States
* Hate crime
* Decarceration in the United States
* Electronic monitoring in the United States
* Statistical correlations of criminal behaviour

## References

1. ↑ Bulman, May (October 11, 2017). "Ethnic minorities most likely to be both victims and suspects of crime, UK race report finds" (in en). The Independent. https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/ethnic-minorities-crime-victims-perpetrators-uk-race-report-a7993521.html.
2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 "Diskriminering i rättsprocessen - Brå" (in sv). https://www.bra.se/bra/publikationer/arkiv/publikationer/2008-02-21-diskriminering-i-rattsprocessen.html.
3. ↑ Hällsten, Martin; Szulkin, Ryszard; Sarnecki, Jerzy (2013-05-01). "Crime as a Price of Inequality? The Gap in Registered Crime between Childhood Immigrants, Children of Immigrants and Children of Native Swedes". British Journal of Criminology 53 (3): 456–481. doi:10.1093/bjc/azt005.
4. ↑ 4.0 4.1 Crocitti, Stefania (2014). Immigration, Crime, and Criminalization in Italy - Oxford Handbooks. doi:10.1093/oxfordhb/9780199859016.013.029.
5. ↑ 5.0 5.1 Colombo, Asher (2013-11-01). "Foreigners and immigrants in Italy's penal and administrative detention systems" (in en). European Journal of Criminology 10 (6): 746–759. doi:10.1177/1477370813495128.
6. ↑ Parmar, Alpa (2014). Ethnicities, Racism, and Crime in England and Wales - Oxford Handbooks. doi:10.1093/oxfordhb/9780199859016.013.014.
7. ↑ Holmberg, Lars; Kyvsgaard, Britta (2003). "Are Immigrants and Their Descendants Discriminated against in the Danish Criminal Justice System?". Journal of Scandinavian Studies in Criminology and Crime Prevention 4 (2): 125–142. doi:10.1080/14043850310020027.
8. ↑ Roché, Sebastian; Gordon, Mirta B.; Depuiset, Marie-Aude (2014). Case Study - Oxford Handbooks. doi:10.1093/oxfordhb/9780199859016.013.030.
9. ↑ Light, Michael T. (2016-03-01). "The Punishment Consequences of Lacking National Membership in Germany, 1998–2010" (in en). Social Forces 94 (3): 1385–1408. doi:10.1093/sf/sov084.
10. ↑ Wermink, Hilde; Johnson, Brian D.; Nieuwbeerta, Paul; Keijser, Jan W. de (2015-11-01). "Expanding the scope of sentencing research: Determinants of juvenile and adult punishment in the Netherlands" (in en). European Journal of Criminology 12 (6): 739–768. doi:10.1177/1477370815597253.
11. ↑ Warren, Patricia Y.; Tomaskovic-Devey, Donald (2009-05-01). "Racial profiling and searches: Did the politics of racial profiling change police behavior?" (in en). Criminology & Public Policy 8 (2): 343–369. doi:10.1111/j.1745-9133.2009.00556.x.
12. ↑ Statistics on Race and the Criminal Justice System 2008/09, p. 8., 22
13. ↑ West, Jeremy (February 2018). "Racial Bias in Police Investigations". Working Paper. https://people.ucsc.edu/~jwest1/articles/West_RacialBiasPolice.pdf.
14. ↑ Donohue III, John J.; Levitt, Steven D. (2001-01-01). "The Impact of Race on Policing and Arrests". The Journal of Law & Economics 44 (2): 367–394. doi:10.1086/322810.
15. ↑ Abrams, David S.; Bertrand, Marianne; Mullainathan, Sendhil (2012-06-01). "Do Judges Vary in Their Treatment of Race?". The Journal of Legal Studies 41 (2): 347–383. doi:10.1086/666006. https://scholarship.law.upenn.edu/faculty_scholarship/355.
16. ↑ Mustard, David B. (2001). "Racial, Ethnic, and Gender Disparities in Sentencing: Evidence from the U.S. Federal Courts". The Journal of Law and Economics 44 (1): 285–314. doi:10.1086/320276.
17. ↑ Anwar, Shamena; Bayer, Patrick; Hjalmarsson, Randi (2012-05-01). "The Impact of Jury Race in Criminal Trials" (in en). The Quarterly Journal of Economics 127 (2): 1017–1055. doi:10.1093/qje/qjs014.
18. ↑ Daudistel, Howard C.; Hosch, Harmon M.; Holmes, Malcolm D.; Graves, Joseph B. (1999-02-01). "Effects of Defendant Ethnicity on Juries' Dispositions of Felony Cases" (in en). Journal of Applied Social Psychology 29 (2): 317–336. doi:10.1111/j.1559-1816.1999.tb01389.x.
19. ↑ Depew, Briggs; Eren, Ozkan; Mocan, Naci (2017). "Judges, Juveniles, and In-Group Bias". Journal of Law and Economics 60 (2): 209–239. doi:10.1086/693822. http://www.nber.org/papers/w22003.pdf.
20. ↑ David, Arnold; Will, Dobbie; Yang, Crystal S. (May 2017). "Racial Bias in Bail Decisions". NBER Working Paper No. 23421. doi:10.3386/w23421.
21. ↑ Rehavi, M. Marit; Starr, Sonja B. (2014). "Racial Disparity in Federal Criminal Sentences" (in en). Journal of Political Economy 122 (6): 1320–1354. doi:10.1086/677255. ISSN 0022-3808. https://repository.law.umich.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=2413&context=articles.
22. ↑ Yang, Crystal S.; Cohen, Alma (2019). "Judicial Politics and Sentencing Decisions" (in en). American Economic Journal: Economic Policy 11 (1): 160–91. doi:10.1257/pol.20170329. ISSN 1945-7731.
23. ↑ Beck, Allen J. (September 2021). "Race and Ethnicity of Violent Crime Offenders and Arrestees, 2018". https://bjs.ojp.gov/content/pub/pdf/revcoa18.pdf.

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