Summary

In England and Wales, members of ethnic minority groups have been found to be more likely to be victimised, and to be more likely to fear victimisation. This information comes from successive sweeps of the British Crime Survey, which, in addition to its main sample, recruits a special ethnic minority booster sample in order more deeply to probe inter-racial differences. The Scottish Crime Survey doesn't yet do this, but in 1996 the Scottish Office commissioned the Scottish Centre for Criminology to pilot the idea. Accordingly, 1182 adult residensts in the West of Scotland were interviewed about their concerns about both crime and the police. About half the respondents (555) were white, with the remainder being drawn from Scotland's main ethnic community groups: 219 Indians, 213 Pakistanis, and 195 Chinese. The survey discovered few ethnic minority/white victimisation, of fear of victimisation differences. Overall, it is the similarities, rather than the differences between, the white respondents and the ethnic minority ones which was most striking.

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