RT Article
T1 Racial Disparity in Police Stop and Searches in England and Wales
JF Journal of quantitative criminology
VO 27
IS 4
SP 453
OP 473
A1 Borooah, Vani K.
LA English
YR 2011
UL https://krimdok.uni-tuebingen.de/Record/1764277872
AB Data published by the United Kingdom’s Ministry for Justice clearly shows that, compared to persons who were White, members of racial minorities in England, particularly Blacks, were far more likely to be stopped and searched by the police. The question is whether such racial disparity in stops and searches could be justified by racial disparities in offending? Or whether the disparity in stop and searches exceeded the disparity in offending? This paper proposes a method for measuring the amount of excess in racial disparity in police stop and searches. Using the most recently published Ministry of Justice data (for 2007/08) for Police Areas in England and Wales it concludes that while in several Areas there was no excess to racial disparity in police stop and searches, there was, on the basis of the methodology proposed in the paper, evidence of such excess in some Police Areas of England and Wales.
K1 Inequality measures
K1 Sentences
K1 Cautions
K1 Arrests
K1 Stop and search
K1 Racial Disparity
DO 10.1007/s10940-011-9131-0