The state and criminal justice agencies use various responses to deal with the ‘problem’ of ‘crime’. These responses are forms of control which impact differently upon individuals and groups in society dependant upon their determining contexts.’
Since the eighteenth century society has been controlled by policing to deal with the ‘problem’ of ‘crime’. Although there are various perceptions of what ‘crime’ is and means, we can view it as an offence or act which is able to be punished by the Law. Despite this, the Police arguably omit ‘crimes’ caused by particular individuals or groups such as; the bourgeois and white males and females. Many occasions these responses deny less privileged and minority groups equality within the criminal justice …show more content…
Many research confirms that young black men are misrepresented highly and disproportionately This potentially stems from the media misrepresentations and the ongoing concern between immigration and crime which began over two hundred years ago. We can criticise the police’s responses to crimes in many ways; from the way they choose who to stop and search, which arguably relies upon labelling theories. How police allow prisoners to die and are not charged, and also how police prominently hold bias opinions before making …show more content…
As Muncie,J (2001:159) states, “labeled individuals are stereotyped” therefore resulting in “the unanticipated consequence or promoting the behaviour it is designed to prevent. This theory first approached through the work of Howard Becker in the 1960’s and focused on reactions of others rather than the reaction of who committed the ‘crime’.
To conclude, the response of policing to ‘crimes’ caused by individuals who are from ethnic minority groups and the underclass are perceived differently to the elitists and the bourgeois. This repels against the rule of Law and denies certain individuals ‘equality’. Reasoning for these certain actions can draw from labelling theories; creating individuals to hold an identity of deviance and the biological theory which follows a belief that certain people are ‘born bad’, being dependant upon; looks, gender, race and the class in which we are born
Since the eighteenth century society has been controlled by policing to deal with the ‘problem’ of ‘crime’. Although there are various perceptions of what ‘crime’ is and means, we can view it as an offence or act which is able to be punished by the Law. Despite this, the Police arguably omit ‘crimes’ caused by particular individuals or groups such as; the bourgeois and white males and females. Many occasions these responses deny less privileged and minority groups equality within the criminal justice …show more content…
Many research confirms that young black men are misrepresented highly and disproportionately This potentially stems from the media misrepresentations and the ongoing concern between immigration and crime which began over two hundred years ago. We can criticise the police’s responses to crimes in many ways; from the way they choose who to stop and search, which arguably relies upon labelling theories. How police allow prisoners to die and are not charged, and also how police prominently hold bias opinions before making …show more content…
As Muncie,J (2001:159) states, “labeled individuals are stereotyped” therefore resulting in “the unanticipated consequence or promoting the behaviour it is designed to prevent. This theory first approached through the work of Howard Becker in the 1960’s and focused on reactions of others rather than the reaction of who committed the ‘crime’.
To conclude, the response of policing to ‘crimes’ caused by individuals who are from ethnic minority groups and the underclass are perceived differently to the elitists and the bourgeois. This repels against the rule of Law and denies certain individuals ‘equality’. Reasoning for these certain actions can draw from labelling theories; creating individuals to hold an identity of deviance and the biological theory which follows a belief that certain people are ‘born bad’, being dependant upon; looks, gender, race and the class in which we are born