Racist Dogs and Institutional Racism
Dogs can’t, of course, be racist – but their handlers certainly can – and if you’re looking for a contemporary example of systemic racism then the US Department of Justice report into the killing of Michael Brown probably fits the bill.
Patterns of Victimisation: Social Class
A range of official statistical data, from the British Crime Surveys to the General Household Survey, provide information about the relationship between victimisation and class – although this data may not always be simple to interpret (different sources use definitions and measures of class). For example, there appears to be an apparent contradiction between two […]