The relationship between justice and race is fraught. Robert Buckland, the solicitor-general, was quoted in the Daily Telegram newspaper, as saying that those convicted in Newcastle early this month of abusing women and girls, plying them with alcohol, drug should carry stiffer penalties because criminal gangs target at white victims. During a trial, a member of the gang referred to white women as trash. He said they are not good but for one thing. The case illustrates the complexity of taking into account the role that racism and other forms of prejudice play in crime. The law in England and Wales, in fact, allows for harsher penalties if certain types of prejudice have been an aggravating factor in a crime. If police or attorney establishes that a suspect demonstrated racial or religious hostility while carrying out types of assaults or bodily damage or that they were motivated by such prejudice, the person would be charged with aggravated versions of those crimes that carry stiffer penalties.
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