Individuals within police still actively discriminate against groups including youth and ethnic groups such as Maori and Pacifica peoples who are the proposed target of community policing strategies (Duncan, Subhadra & Nilakant, 2001).This discrimination is demonstrated through disparities of how Maori and Pacifica peoples are treated by the police and the overall criminal justice system. In effect this policing strategy appears to discriminatory and is observed through the disproportionate arrests rates across these ethnicities (Tauri, Webb, 2012). This outcome is problematic because rather than tackling the underlying issues that are causing individuals to offend these groups are being further ostracised and disassociated …show more content…
However this perception is an unrealistic depiction of reality as many groups are marginalised or actively discriminated against and do not have access to the same life chances as the social elite of their society (Workman, McIntosh, 2013). This may create stresses in certain groups and causes individuals to commit more crime as well as creating a class that is also unfairly targeted against by the criminal justice system (Workman, McIntosh, 2013). Some of these individuals become folk devils and are in turn marginalised or ostracised by society i.e. blaming them for society’s ills such as crime, creating a demand for increasing spending on the police and the prisons to control these groups (Workman, McIntosh, 2013.). Consideration of rehabilitation is also declining across minority groups as well as the disadvantaged that have been classified as being criminal classes (Workman, McIntosh, 2013). The prison population reflects this fact as most inmates have experienced severe poverty and have higher victimisation rates than the general population. They are also typically young; over fifty per cent of inmates are between the ages of sixteen and