If. Young Men Who Kill: A Prospective Longitudinal Examination from Childhood. Young Black men were 10.5 times more likely than young White men to be arrested. 78% of victims were male, 32% were aged between 17 to 24, and 55% were BAME. For example, in 2018 to 2019, the Metropolitan Police Service made 48% of all stops and searches in England and Wales. London: Norton. Such a study might take around 3 years and begin by using quantitative data to identify a range of geographical hotspots pertaining to the crimes of interest across a sample of several towns and cities in the UK. Risk factors are variables which can usefully predict an increased risk or likelihood of violent crime, drug use, gang involvement, property offences and antisocial behaviour. Academic achievement, commitment to school, school recognition for involvement in conventional activities, high educational aspirations and bonding to school. Cambridge University Press. In 2018, the ACSL for possession of weapons offences was highest for Asian offenders at 17.1 months and lowest for Chinese or Other offenders at 8.8 months. Breaking and entering: an ethnographic analysis of burglary. They can be contacted via email at:. In turn, they rely on decontextualised statistics based on fragmented data taken from multiple agencies and organisations. [footnote 9] The NCA (2017) report that of those police forces who supplied them with information, ethnicity of suspected nominals varied according to geographical location. Youth gang affiliation, violence, and criminal activities: A review of motivational, risk, and protective factors. Our analysis of the sample of literature shows that there are demonstrable, quantifiable and robust disparities in Criminal Justice System (CJS) pathways outcomes according to ethnicity. For example, the Metropolitan Polices gangs matrix was criticised by Amnesty International for being racially discriminatory, with young Black men being over-represented, and 38% of people on the matrix being judged to pose no risk of committing violence. There were 292 (15%) victims in the Black,. , MOJ (2015): Associations between ethnic background and being sentenced to prison in the Crown Court in England and Wales. The sample of studies and reports are extremely limited in their capacity to examine actual levels of BAME involvement in crime as opposed merely to recorded offending. For example, 2 studies[footnote 48] showed that burglars select the most vulnerable targets based on aspects such as occupancy, wealth, layout, and security (see Table 6 below). There is no clear evidence of ethnic differences between White and BAME offenders arrested or convicted of acquisitive violence. Also, offenders can and do engage in a wide range of crimes often explained theoretically by the inter-relationships between several risk factors.