§ Sir Norman FowlerTo ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department if he will place the study into crime in London carried out by Dr. Marion Fitzgerald, in the Library; and if he will make a statement. [79194]
§ Mr. Straw[holding answer 29 March 1999]: Dr. Fitzgerald has not undertaken a study into crime in London.
Dr. Fitzgerald did prepare a briefing paper for Ministers on ethnicity and criminality, which consolidated some data from small-scale local studies, previously published material and some material that has yet to be published.
It has been the practice of successive Governments that such internal briefing papers are not themselves published.
Dr. Fitzgerald's published research while with the Home Office has included:
Ethnic Minorities and the criminal justice system: Research Study No. 20.
The Royal Commission on Criminal Justice (1993).Ethnic Minorities Victimisation and Racial Harassment: Findings from the 1988 and 1992 British Crime Surveys with Hale C.
Home Office, Research Development and Statistics Directorate (HORS 154) (1996).Ethnic monitoring in police forces: A beginning with Sibbett R.
Home Office, Research, Development and Statistics Directorate (HORS 173) (1997).Evaluation of the Racially Aggravated Offences in the Crime and Disorder Act 1998.
Home Office, Research, Development and Statistics Directorate (Spring 2001).I am happy to make available to the right hon. Member a full list of relevant published research in this field.