Racial and ethnic minorities have long been
associated with criminal behaviour in some
people's minds. Does this over representation
result from discrimination within the system
or do racial or ethnic minorities actually
participate more in criminal behaviour and what
part does marginalisation, geographic location,
gang memberships play - and what are the differences
between groups?

For example - Aboriginal people have different values
and practices which may disadvantage them in the
justice system during police interrogation and
courtroom procedures and lead to unjust levels of
intervention and sentencing.

Lexi said;
That suggests to me that you
think that your opinions are of more value.

No, I can be as wrong as anyone else, perhaps even more so.
What I was suggesting is that you always take what can be described as
the PC position on everything. That position, in my opinion is, in the
majority of cases, nonsense.
As you have not been around for a while, many may not have realised that.
Anyway, hope you had a good holiday from this babbling tent.

Bazz, "PC" is not just a left wing thing. The right wing also have their equally expansive and entrenched right wing PC attitudes .... they just don't call it "PC".

Dear Bazz,

My views have nothing to
do with "political correctness." They are
usually views based on research from a wide
variety of resources ( books, databases,
newspapers and so on).

As for crime in Australia?
It has existed from early days of settlement - long
before the mass migration of Europeans post World
War II. I believe the greater majority of the
population pre-World War II was of English/Irish
ancestry. Historical accounts of major criminal
activity in those early years can be found in
history books.

Bushrangers, murderers, thieves, made for some
good yarns - especially for authors, storytellers,
and film-makers.

BTW - my husband, was educated by the Christian Brothers.
His school had regular visits from the Pentridge Chaplain
who one day said that the greatest number of inmates
in Pentridge jail were "old boys" from the school.

Ahhh, there you are see;
It was all the Irish !
Hi !

English, Scottish, aboriginal, USA, Italian, Afghan, Australian, Irish, New Zealand, Pacific Islander, Welsh, Spanish, Greek etc etc etc etc etc.

There ya go Bazza ..... I hope you "now" understand.