ABSTRACT
Crime featured fleetingly in a major survey conducted in the late 1980s with a large sample of Scottish ethnic minorities and whites, but few victimisation differences were discovered apart from the rinding that ethnic minority households were more likely to be victims of vehicle crime than were white households. In the post second world war period, migration to Scotland was predominantly from the Indian sub-continent and, in 1950, numbered about 600 persons, increasing to 1,300 in 1955. Because the 1991 Census included, for the first time, full questions on ethnic status, profiling the ethnic minority population in Scotland is relatively simple. Unsurprisingly, given the greater numbers of ethnic minority residents living there, a great deal of research into the participation of members of ethnic minority groups in the criminal justice system has been conducted in England and Wales.
