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Originally Posted by VickyJ

It sounds an awful lot like you are blaming the crimes on racism in the first place? You assume far too much if this is what you were trying to say.

If not, I apologise.

In part institutional racism is a part of it, black males are more likely to be stopped, white males are more likely to be cautioned than black men (for the same offences). Black men are more likely to be convicted and given harsher sentences for the same offences, even when they have fewer previous convictions then their white counterparts...aswell as being marginalised in society. Its not blaming the crimes on that, its just facts that make up why black men are over represented in the justice system. Theres another study which I cant find that suggests the level of crime is more even accross cultures according to offenders self reports.