The study, Differences or Discrimination?, examined 17,000 cases to see whether differences in outcomes were related to ethnicity or gender alone, or if they could be related to other factors such as criminal record, seriousness of the crime or age.
Black and mixed-heritage young men are more likely to be prosecuted, the report found, and there was a much greater proportion of young Black men being remanded in custody whose proceedings had not resulted in conviction.
There was also a much higher probability that a Black man would receive a sentence of more than a year at Crown Court, and mixed-heritage girls were far more likely to be prosecuted.
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