.. On & Off Screen Representations..

These Statistics are from Home Office:

The total number of stop and searches conducted by police increased by 14% in 2005, with terrorism-related searches increasing by 9%. Black people were six times more likely to be stopped and searched by police than white people and there were nearly twice as many searches of Asian people than white people.

The statistics also showed that racist incidents recorded by the police had increased by 7% in 2005.

On Screen Representations...

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/6753695.stm

This news article, represents young black people of being the only race that commits the most crimes in the UK.

The article covers points such as: 'Stop and search' , 'Blair failure' and 'Gangsta rap'. None of these representations are negative, however their is some discrimination in this article that supports young black people.

Moreover an article from The Guardian showed what Tony Blair had said:

Tony Blair yesterday claimed the spate of knife and gun murders in London was not being caused by poverty, but a distinctive black culture.

This as a conlcusion, could lead to the majority of the Uk population also having the same views, as the moral panics that are shown on screen of represntations of black people are becoming more and more strong, also the use of the on screen topics being shown to the UK population about young black people are all negative instead of positive, which therefore as a result may lead to everyones views on young black people being the same and being negative.

Off Screen Representations...

Due to all the moral panics in the media about young black males and the high statistics on rape, kinfe crime and gun crime, this leads their stereotypes to be very strong. For example not all young black males may be offenders of knife crime or gun crime, however due to all the moral panics in the media, they are stereotyped that they are and may get stopped and searched for no reason at all, but just because they are black.