An article said that even with unrealistically perfect data it was 'surprisingly difficult' to gain any benefit from ethnic/racial profiling for security purposes.
Source: William Press, 'To catch a terrorist: can ethnic profiling work?', Significance, Volume 7 Issue 4
Links: Abstract | RSS press release
Date: 2010-Dec
A report examined the resettlement needs and experiences of black, Asian, and minority-ethnic prisoners and ex-prisoners.
Source: Jessica Jacobson, Coretta Phillips and Kimmett Edgar, 'Double Trouble'? Black, Asian and minority ethnic offenders' experiences of resettlement, Prison Reform Trust/Clinks
Links: Report
Date: 2010-Dec
An article examined a probation programme for racially motivated offenders. The content and delivery of the programme were in line with what research suggested should be helpful practice with this group of offenders, and the programme was a positive example of skilled, creative practice.
Source: Julia Palmer and David Smith, 'Promoting human dignity: an evaluation of a programme for racially motivated offenders', Probation Journal, Volume 57 Number 4
Links: Abstract
Date: 2010-Dec
Researchers sought to identify the prevalence of racially motivated offending among young people in England and Wales and to shed light on the response to racially motivated offending within the youth justice system.
Source: Aidan Wilcox, Hannah Smithson, Kris Christmann, Leanne Monchuk and Kevin Wong, Racially Motivated Offending and Targeted Interventions, Youth Justice Board for England and Wales/Home Office
Links: Report
Date: 2010-Oct
An article examined ethnic disparities in the use of stop-and-search powers by police force areas in England. There had been no improvement since the Stephen Lawrence Inquiry in 1999: but this overall finding was heavily influenced by London and, to a lesser extent, Greater Manchester and the west midlands, which were out of step with most of the rest of the country.
Source: Joel Miller, 'Stop and search in England: a reformed tactic or business as usual?', British Journal of Criminology, Volume 50 Number 5
Links: Abstract
Date: 2010-Sep
An article said that reforms to stop-and-search procedures following the Lawrence inquiry (in 1999) had been experienced by the police as a form of 'collective trauma', giving rise to a series of defence mechanisms and allied forms of resistance that had distanced the new recording requirement from its intended purpose.
Source: Michael Shiner, 'Post-Lawrence policing in England and Wales: guilt, innocence and the defence of organizational ego', British Journal of Criminology, Volume 50 Number 5
Links: Abstract
Date: 2010-Sep
An article examined the prevalence of racially motivated offending (RMO) among young people, and youth justice system responses to it. The majority of provision was multifaceted but also ad hoc, and did not address the evidence on the causes of RMO. The multiplicity of causes needed to be reflected in the interventions designed to tackle it.
Source: Hannah Smithson, Aidan Wilcox and Leanne Monchuk, 'Current responses to youth racially motivated offending', Youth Justice, Volume 10 Number 2
Links: Abstract
Date: 2010-Aug
An article examined the contributions of social scientists to the meaning of institutional racism and the police response to racial violence. The concept of institutional racism had recently tended to be disowned or downgraded, while racial violence had became subsumed within the broader category of 'hate crime'.
Source: Karim Murji, 'Applied social science? Academic contributions to the Stephen Lawrence Inquiry and their consequences', Journal of Social Policy, Volume 39 Issue 3
Links: Abstract
Date: 2010-Jul
A report examined the extent and nature of racial violence. Certain groups of people were particularly at risk: 'dispersed' asylum-seekers; newly-arrived migrant workers; and those who looked Muslim and/or worked in isolating trades such as taxi-cabbing, food take-aways, and small shops and eateries.
Source: Harmit Athwal, Jenny Bourne and Rebecca Wood, Racial Violence: The Buried Issue, Institute of Race Relations
Links: Report | IRR press release | Telegraph report
Date: 2010-Jun
A report examined the use of ethnic profiling in law enforcement.
Source: Kjartan Pall Sveinsson (ed.), Ethnic Profiling: The use of 'race' in UK law enforcement, Runnymede Trust
Links: Summary
Date: 2010-Jun
The equal rights watchdog said that a number of police forces in England and Wales were using stop-and-search powers in a way that was disproportionate and possibly in breach of the Race Relations Act.
Source: Stop and Think: A critical review of the use of stop and search powers in England and Wales, Equality and Human Rights Commission
Links: Report | EHRC press release | Telegraph report | Children & Young People Now report
Date: 2010-Mar
A report said that the needs of minority-ethnic women were frequently rendered invisible in the criminal justice system as offenders, victims, and workers in the justice sector, as they faced double discrimination on the grounds of sex and race. They were over-represented within the female offender population, and under-represented as workers within the criminal justice system particularly at senior levels.
Source: Sharon Smee and Zohra Moosa, Realising Rights: Increasing ethnic minority women's access to justice, Fawcett Society
Links: Report | Fawcett Society press release
Date: 2010-Feb
An article examined the relationship between the characterization of, and response to, anti-social behaviour issues in areas of high ethnic diversity and emerging 'post-multicultural' policies of integration, cohesion, and citizenship.
Source: David Prior, 'Disciplining the multicultural community: ethnic diversity and the governance of anti-social behaviour', Social Policy and Society, Volume 9 Issue 1
Links: Abstract
Date: 2010-Jan
A study examined the role of ethnic identities in assisting prisoners to cope with the 'pains of imprisonment' and in configuring social relations in two male prisons. Ethnic difference was found to be a 'banal and unremarkable' aspect of prisoners' lives in home communities and in prison. Living with diversity was largely accepted as the norm for both white and minority-ethnic prisoners.
Source: Coretta Phillips and Rod Earle, Ethnicity, Identity and Social Relations in Prison, Economic and Social Research Council
Links: Report | Summary | ESRC press release
Date: 2010-Jan