ABSTRACT
This conclusion presents some closing thoughts on the concepts covered in the preceding chapters of this book. The book argues that the critical criminologists of the 1970s were well aware of racism’s potential as a source of both unity and division among the white working class. It also argues that an adequate understanding of racist crime demands a model of the human subject informed by the empirical evidence that demonstrates that racist mindsets are rarely all-encompassing, absolute, and immutable. The book discusses the relation to both the “community cohesion” and the “respect” agendas that successive governments have failed to understand the needs of young people while treating them as either vehicles for, or targets of, doomed policy initiatives. It shows how the promise of “social inclusion” made to the young British Pakistani men interviewed remained unfulfilled, and how they, their families, and other people like them were then blamed for creating “self-segregating” communities.
