Racist Offending, Policing and Community Conflict

Dados Bibliográficos

ID2321367
AutoresL Ray (0000-0003-1592-3425, University of Kent, autor correspondente), David Smith (0000-0002-8202-8108, Lancaster University, autor correspondente)
Ano2004
Volume38
Fascículo4
Páginas681-699
Data de publicação2004-10-01
Peer ReviewedSim
Open AccessSim
TipoARTICLE
PeriódicoSociology (JOURNAL)
Identificadores do periódicoISSN: 0038-0385 • E-ISSN: 1469-8684
EditoraSAGE Publications Inc (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1177/0038038504045859
OpenAlexW2016568394
IdiomaEN
Citações recebidas11
Referências citadas15

Since the Stephen Lawrence inquiry several initiatives have transformed the policing of racism, and have entailed significant changes in the criminal justice system. This article reviews these in the light of our research on racist offenders in Greater Manchester between 1998 and 2001. We argue that racist offending is not necessarily consistent with the assumptions underlying some of these initiatives. The conclusions from this work are then discussed in the context of the disturbances in Oldham and elsewhere in the UK during the summer of 2001. We suggest that constructions of racist offending have given excessive weight to individual motives and intentions, while much offending behaviour is grounded in wider cultural and social contexts. We present the background to these conflicts in terms of a vicious spiral of styles of policing, use of reported statistics and the involvement of racist organizations. We conclude that to explain racist violence we need to think in terms of not a single issue but of multiple issues of bias, and of cultures of violence, exclusions and marginalization

Context (archaeology) · Criminal justice · Criminology · Economic Justice · Political science · Racism · Sociology · Gender Studies · Law · Migration, Refugees, and Integration · Policing Practices and Perceptions · Racial and Ethnic Identity Research