tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1638916042737526171.post7440448748442722169..comments2024-03-28T07:16:39.621+00:00Comments on Lallands Peat Worrier: Devolution's vaulting prison population...Lallands Peat Worrierhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18276270498204697708noreply@blogger.comBlogger7125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1638916042737526171.post-29976217983280834552011-08-22T18:13:49.297+01:002011-08-22T18:13:49.297+01:00Maybe we need to jail a few more Pakistanis and Pr...Maybe we need to jail a few more Pakistanis and Protestants.<br />Or a few less Catholics.<br /><br />I do like LPW's reference to "the religious committments of those in prison Scotland."terrencehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15075471706398555654noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1638916042737526171.post-35767178978405441832011-08-21T12:57:03.507+01:002011-08-21T12:57:03.507+01:00Indy,
The number of prisoners in custody aren'...Indy,<br /><br />The number of prisoners in custody aren't distinguished by postcode - but the bulletin <i>does</i> contain a geographical breakdown of the local authority home areas of those in custody. <br /><br />For details, <a href="http://www.scotland.gov.uk/Publications/2011/08/19154230/10" rel="nofollow">see Table 6 here.</a>Lallands Peat Worrierhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07238432265194046726noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1638916042737526171.post-25608392956486941652011-08-21T08:12:18.254+01:002011-08-21T08:12:18.254+01:00I remeber Kenny MacAskill saying once that a large...I remeber Kenny MacAskill saying once that a large slice of the prison population came from a relatively small number of postcode areas. I don't suppose they have published that information but I dare say we can guess where they are and most will be centred around Glasgow, Lanarkshire, Inverclyde and perhaps Ayrshire and the same areas will feature highli in measures of deprivation. That will explain the over-representation of Catholics too I imagine since historically Catholic immigrants settled in the poorest areas, which have remained the poorest areas.<br /><br />I don't think the same is true of Asian migrants, which probably helps explain why the proportion of prisoners frm an ethnic minority seems to be proportionate to the population as a whole. I would guess that is because immigrants from the sub-continet had to have a certain amount of money to begin with in order to be able to travel to the UK in the first place so many of them had the wherewithal to start up businesses etc, which provided employment for the rest.Indyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04383904151475839441noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1638916042737526171.post-39075989431873615992011-08-20T18:48:56.440+01:002011-08-20T18:48:56.440+01:00terrence,
Perfectly fair for you to etch a note o...terrence,<br /><br />Perfectly fair for you to etch a note of caution when it comes to the interpretation of these figures. For myself, I <i>absolutely</i> was not attempting in this posting to make any sort of causal analysis, vis-à-vis the religious commitments of those in prison in Scotland.Lallands Peat Worrierhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07238432265194046726noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1638916042737526171.post-56529840529394622422011-08-20T14:54:54.101+01:002011-08-20T14:54:54.101+01:00If represented on a Venn diagram the two seperate ...If represented on a Venn diagram the two seperate sets of statistics of prison and wider population could only have a probable, but not identifiabe, overlap.<br />So comparison is of questionable value and validity.<br />Poland, a Catholic country, doesn't feature on the tables shown.terrencehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15075471706398555654noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1638916042737526171.post-84358123050751249062011-08-20T14:17:16.431+01:002011-08-20T14:17:16.431+01:00Thanks Edwin. As I was discussing with the Burd ea...Thanks Edwin. As I was discussing with the Burd earlier this week, it is profoundly unfortunate that the press almost invariably stick to the "topline" results of these sorts of studies, barely heeding the (often much more) interesting details a bit further into them. Important things are all too easily missed, and go undiscussed.Lallands Peat Worrierhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18276270498204697708noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1638916042737526171.post-60939123490241441402011-08-20T10:52:19.303+01:002011-08-20T10:52:19.303+01:00Classic LPW: solid presentation of the figures and...Classic LPW: solid presentation of the figures and shrewd comments. <br /><br />That graph alone is a shocker.Edwin Moorehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05317173893948248954noreply@blogger.com