Sociology: Ethnicity Data - Statistics

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13% The percentage of those of the general population of ethnic minority backgrounds.
100%
2/3 This is the fraction of knife crime offenders in London being Black or minority ethnic youths.
100%
2.4x This is how many times more likely Black people are to being arrested as White people.
100%
27% The percentage of those in prison of ethnic minority backgrounds.
100%
2x According to the Ministry of Justice (2013), Asian people were this times more likely to be stopped and searched by police.
100%
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.
100%
~40% According to Sharp & Budd (2005), this was the percentage of White people who would say they had committed an offence.
100%
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.
100%
63% The percentage of stop and searches in the year ending March 2022 of males aged between 15 and 34.
100%
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.
100%
88,225 The prison population on 13th October 2023.
100%
9x This is how many times more likely Black people are to be stopped and searched than White people.
100%
Over 50% This is the percentage of ethnic minority children living in poverty.
100%
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.
100%
White People According to Sharp & Budd (2005), this is the ethnic group which is most likely to commit drug offences.
100%
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'.
50%
5% The sociologist Roger Hood (1992) found that Black men were had this greater probability of being incarcerated than White men.
50%
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