‘Joint enterprise’ is described as a ‘dragnet’ that draws disproportionate numbers of black and minority ethnic young men into the criminal justice system in England and Wales. While stereotyping by the police and prosecution has been blamed for this distributive injustice, empirical research on joint enterprise is limited. This article presents the findings from a study of homicide and ‘gang’ detectives in London in which they rebut accusations of racial stereotyping when investigating multi-handed crimes. Instead, they claim that the disproportionality reflects the involvement of larger numbers of primarily black men in violent crime. Using Margaret Archer’s social realist theory, detectives frame their actions as being driven by their ‘ultimate concerns’ to do a good job of protecting the public and obtaining justice for victims within the difficult social and cultural context in which they operate. However, in this article, we expose the racialized notions of risk in detectives’ narratives and argue that such ‘colour-blind racism’ is likely to contribute to young black and mixed-race men being overrepresented in cases that draw on the principles of joint enterprise dragging those on the periphery of group violence into the criminal justice net.

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困难条件下的“好工作”：“联合企业”背景下侦探的反思、决策和歧视

“联合企业”被描述为将不成比例的黑人和少数族裔年轻人卷入英格兰和威尔士刑事司法系统的“天罗地网”。虽然这种分配不公归咎于警察和检方的刻板印象，但对联合企业的实证研究是有限的。本文介绍了伦敦凶杀案和“帮派”侦探的研究结果，他们在调查多手犯罪时反驳了种族陈规定型观念的指控。相反，他们声称这种不成比例反映了大量主要是黑人的男性参与了暴力犯罪。运用玛格丽特·阿彻 (Margaret Archer) 的社会现实主义理论，侦探将他们的行为描述为受他们“最终关注”的驱使，以便在他们所处的困难社会和文化环境中做好保护公众并为受害者伸张正义的工作。然而，在本文中，我们揭露了侦探叙述中的种族化风险概念，并认为这种“色盲种族主义”可能会导致年轻的黑人和混血男子在利用联合原则的案件中人数过多。企业将处于群体暴力边缘的人拖入刑事司法网络。