Research Proposal: Analyzing Racism in the Criminal Justice System

This research proposal critically analyzes the impact of institutional racism on the Criminal Justice System in England and Wales. It investigates whether the system, influenced by racial discrimination and stereotypes, fails to deliver justice and fairness. The study examines legislation, guidelines, statistical data, and government information to identify any changes made to eradicate racism. The research aims to analyze the effectiveness of legislation in protecting individual rights, investigate flaws in the system related to racism, and assess the justice and fairness of the judiciary. The methodology involves a deductive approach with a descriptive research design, utilizing secondary data collection. The conclusion emphasizes the need for more effective laws and guidelines to prevent racism, and for the judiciary to take more effective steps to address racism, acknowledging its negative impact on justice and fairness within the Criminal Justice System.

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Table of Contents
One thousand words Research proposal (1000)..........................................................................2
1.0 Introduction........................................................................................................................2
1.1 Background of the research...............................................................................................2
1.2 Research aim......................................................................................................................3
1.3 Research Objective............................................................................................................3
1.4 Research questions.............................................................................................................3
1.5 Structure of the research paper..........................................................................................4
2.0 Research methodology.......................................................................................................4
2.1 Research methodology outline..........................................................................................4
2.2 Research approach.............................................................................................................5
2.3 Research design.................................................................................................................6
2.4 Method of data collection..................................................................................................6
3.0 Conclusion.........................................................................................................................6
4.0 Reference...........................................................................................................................9

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One thousand words Research proposal (1000)
1.0 Introduction
This study aims of critically analyzing the different Criminal Justice system stages for
ascertaining whether due to the institutional racism the system of Criminal Justice has failed in
delivering justice and fairness within the sphere of England and Wales. The legislation’s
interpretation, guidelines, current statistic data, Government information and procedures will be
explored by the author for critically analyzing the previous year’s information for identifying
whether any changes are being made to Criminal Justice system in eradicating the institutional
racism.
1.1 Background of the research
The institutional racism is being highlighted within the system of Criminal Justice as a
problem of radical nature in the United Kingdom for centuries. In the year 2009, after Stephen
Lawrence who was a Caribbean teenager, was murdered in a racially motivated nature, the
establishment of the MacPherson inquiry was being made. The Metropolitan police failed in
various ways even after having the substantial evidences against five of the persons who were
then suspected of committing the murder. The intrusive investigation order was then merited into
the action of the Metropolitan police that has been the Home Secretary’s order for the
investigation of Mr. Lawrence’s murder incident to the trial conclusion.
A report came out as a result of the inquiry of MacPherson where the allegations were
substantiated regarding the institutional racism of the service of the Metropolitan police and has
resulted in immensely failing the family of Lawrence. This case is to be regarded as the point of

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starting based on this research that would follow the case laws that would focus the failures of
the police in handling the other cases which involves great depth racial discrimination and the
exploration of the infamous riots all over the England in the year 2011 in more details which
illustrates the sentence power disparities within criminal courts.
1.2 Research aim
The key aim of this research is to analyze the effectiveness of the legislation tools in
protecting the rights of the individuals within the jurisdiction of England and Wales in relation to
racism, racial discrimination and racial stereotypes; changes made to the system of Criminal
Justice for the same purpose and whether the justice and fairness of the judiciary has been
affected by racism and any kind of racial discrimination.
1.3 Research Objective
 To analyze the effectiveness of the legislation tools for the protection of the rights
of the individuals
 To investigate the flaws of the system of Criminal Justice in relation to racism,
racial discrimination and racial stereotypes
 To analyze the presence of effective changes in the system of Criminal Justice
 To analyze the justice and fairness of the judiciary related to racism
 To analyze the negative effect of racism to the judiciary
1.4 Research questions
The following can be the research questions:

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 Whether the tools of legislation have been effectively used for the protection of
the living individual rights within the jurisdiction of England and Wales?
 Whether there is flaw in the system of Criminal Justice by way of racism, racial
discrimination and racial stereotypes?
 Whether any changes have been effective in the system of Criminal Justice?
Whether the judiciary has racism which affects the justice and fairness?
 Whether the racial stereotypes and prejudices negatively affect the Criminal
Justice system’s justice and fairness at each and every stage?
1.5 Structure of the research paper
There are four chapters in the dissertation of the research paper. The first chapter refers
the research study’s introductory chapter, the background, the aim of the research and the
objective or the questions should be described by the researcher. The second chapter will
describe the theories and the models along with the selected topic’s concept. The research
methodology and the proper knowledge of the topic will be demonstrated in the third chapter.
This chapter will describe the method of data collection and the method of data analysis along
with the data collection result. The fourth chapter will refer to the research study’s concluding
chapter.
2.0 Research methodology
2.1 Research methodology outline
Research methodology intends to help in the depiction of the element overview of the
entire research. This includes research approach, research design and the method of data
collection. Thus, it is to be stated that research methodology is considered the procedure that the

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researcher adopts for reaching a firm conclusion and fulfilling the objective of the research.
Selecting an improper technique might cause conclusion disparity from the research’s outlined
objectives.
The research study is designed for analyzing the effectiveness of the legislation tools in
protecting the rights of the individuals within the jurisdiction of England and Wales in relation to
racism, racial discrimination and racial stereotypes. Thus matching with the topic of the paper,
the researcher has selected qualitative method for analyzing.
2.2 Research approach
In majority of the researches adoption of two basic research approaches are done by the
researcher, which are, inductive and deductive. Inductive research approach follows the
observation, collecting primary and secondary data, data analysis and the establishment of the
relevant theories at the end of the research. Whereas, the method of deductive approach,
undergoes through the selection of the relevant theories, data analysing, hypothesis testing, and
the implementation of the theories for the analyzing of the data and confirmation of the
theoretical evidences1.
In this study the relevant facts has already been discussed by the researcher in the
literature review. Primary data will be collected and analysis will be made for supporting the
theoretical evidences or secondary data. Therefore, it concludes that the present research study
adopts the deductive approach that evaluates the relevant facts and indicates the major factors
that are influencing in the preventing racism.
1Brannen, Julia. Mixing methods: Qualitative and quantitative research. Routledge, 2017

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2.3 Research design
Three key research designs are there: exploratory, explanatory and descriptive. The
further movement and the research direction are depicted by the research design. Exploratory
research design results in helping the enlighten of the identified problem statement’s background
information2. Explanatory research design helps in identifying the reasons of the stated problem3.
The descriptive research design helps in the relating of the research objectives and the research
findings.
In this research study, researcher aims of relating the results and the findings with the
objectives of the research. Hence, descriptive design of research is appropriate in this paper.
2.4 Method of data collection
In this research paper the secondary method of data collection is used. The
collection of Secondary data can be made form books, journals, trusted websites, newspaper
articles and academic papers etc.
3.0 Conclusion
After collection of all the relevant data and after analyzing them, the fact can be
supported by the research that it is necessary to make new racial relation laws which will be
more effective in the prevention of racism, racial discrimination and racial stereotypes in
England and Wales. The judiciary needs to take more effective steps for the purpose of
eradicating the flaws of the judiciary in dealing with the problem of racism and racial
discrimination throughout England and Wales. Although various legislative actions have been
2 Bentahar, Omar, and Roslyn Cameron. "Design and Implementation of a Mixed Method Research Study in Project
Management." Electronic Journal of Business Research Methods 13.1 (2015)
3 Crouch, Christopher, and Jane Pearce. Doing research in design. Bloomsbury Publishing, 2013

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taken after the publishing of the MacPherson report and the murder of Stephen Lawrence who
was a Caribbean teenager, there is still need of more effective legislation and guidelines for
dealing with the problem of racism and racial discrimination. After the collection of all the
relevant data and analyzing of them it can be stated that the presence of racism in the judiciary
system has negatively affected the justice and fairness of the system of Criminal Justice.

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4.0 Reference
Bentahar, Omar, and Roslyn Cameron. "Design and Implementation of a Mixed Method
Research Study in Project Management." Electronic Journal of Business Research Methods 13.1
(2015).
Brannen, Julia. Mixing methods: Qualitative and quantitative research. Routledge, 2017.
Crouch, Christopher, and Jane Pearce. Doing research in design. Bloomsbury Publishing, 2013.