Reluctant gangsters - youth gangs and victimisation

Conference presentatio

‘Dutty Babylon’: policing Black communities and the politics of resistance

The tensions that currently exist between the police and black communities are not recent phenomena. Since the 1950s, successive generations of black people in Britain have felt under protected as victims and over policed as suspects. Although it can be argued that the apparent over policing of black communities can be justified as a response to the disproportionate involvement of black males in particular forms of criminality, what cannot be ignored is that racism, whether institutional or that of individual officers, has played a central role in shaping the relationship that black people have with the police

'Othering' the brothers: black youth, racial solidarity and gun crime

The article discusses a study to address the increase of gun crimes that has brought attention to the socio-cultural predicament of Black young people in Great Britain. A cross-generational study of the experiences of Black people, and their attitudes towards crime and crime control is evaluated. The relationship between the changing nature of Black youth crime and the changing social relations within the Black community. A concern of many Black people is the experience of unjust policing and their involvement with the criminal justice system. The heightened racial tension and unrest resulted in race riots