... the basis of their offences and other factors. Those ethnic minority males were not significantly more likely to receive custodial sentence than white males when other factors were taken into account was confirmed by further analysis. The differences in custody rates were explained by variables such as the type and number of offences, their plea, whether they were subject to a court order when they committed the offences, being mentally ill or whether the offence was spontaneous" (Flood-Page and Mackie 1998;cited in Davis ET al, p.118-120) The prison statistics suggest that crime rates amongst Afro-Caribbean's are much higher than those for whites. The gulf is larger for women than for men but this would appear primarily to be explained by the presence of a relatively large number of foreign nationals (mainly from West Africa) sentenced for drug smuggling and due for deportation at the end of their sentences. That is, Afro-Caribbean ...

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