[Shaun]

I don't think race really comes into it. Although from figures I was presented with in my sociology course there seems to be a very high number of single-parent families within the Afro-Caribbean community in the UK, and I guess as the race with the biggest proportion of this (and the (IMO) ensuing disciplinary problems) they usually get the most representation in the media as being troublemakers.

But it's quite easy to see now that urban youth and criminals are hardly of one race. It's down to neglect and class, ahead of race, IMO.