Victims from minority ethnic groups

English policy and discourse regarding the victimisation of minority ethnic communities have developed against the backdrop of the Macpherson Report (1999) into the death of Stephen Lawrence, which proved to be a pivotal point in this discourse as well as in the way police relate to such victimisation. The very existence of the term ‘institutional racism’, as well as the way in which the interpretation of this term has changed, demonstrates the extent to which values, perceptions and approaches to such victimisation have changed from the time of the Scarman Report (1986) to the Macpherson Report (1999) and thereafter.