This is a quiz based on the AQA A-Level the Social Distribution of Crime and Deviance topic in Sociology. Below are the words which need to be matched to their definitions:
88,225
27%
13%
2.4x
31%
63%
9x
51%
2.2x
5%
86.5%
Terrorism Act (2000)
2/3
Over 50%
~40%
White People
2x
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2.2x
This is how many times more likely Black and minority ethnic group people in the UK are to be in 'deep poverty'. They make up 26% of those in 'deep poverty'.
86.5%
According to the Office of National Statistics, this percentage of stop and searches did not lead to arrest in the year ending March 2023.
27%
The percentage of those in prison of ethnic minority backgrounds.
13%
The percentage of those of the general population of ethnic minority backgrounds.
63%
The percentage of stop and searches in the year ending March 2022 of males aged between 15 and 34.
31%
The percentage of prisoners in custody for violence against the person offences at the end of June 2023. This was the highest proportion of prisoners accounted at this time.
White People
According to Sharp & Budd (2005), this is the ethnic group which is most likely to commit drug offences.
2/3
This is the fraction of knife crime offenders in London being Black or minority ethnic youths.
5%
The sociologist Roger Hood (1992) found that Black men were had this greater probability of being incarcerated than White men.
Over 50%
This is the percentage of ethnic minority children living in poverty.
~40%
According to Sharp & Budd (2005), this was the percentage of White people who would say they had committed an offence.
Terrorism Act (2000)
This legislation allows police to stop and search people or vehicles whether or not they have a reasonable suspicion. Statistics show that people from Asian ethnic backgrounds are more likely to be stopped and searched than any other group.
2x
According to the Ministry of Justice (2013), Asian people were this times more likely to be stopped and searched by police.
51%
The 2021 census found persons who identified as "Black, Black British, Black Welsh, Caribbean or African: Caribbean" had this highest proportion of lone parents - this was an increase of 2.5% from 2011.
9x
This is how many times more likely Black people are to be stopped and searched than White people.
2.4x
This is how many times more likely Black people are to being arrested as White people.