On Screen
On screen representations are quite stereotypical as the setting of the location of this BBC 3 show 'West 10 LDN' focuses on the struggles of black youths, further reinforcing that black youths are under class and un-educated and are incapable of maintaining educational success. In addition, from the violence to the music. were all stereotypical devices used to portray the everyday lives of black teenagers.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/education/2009/feb/17/gangs-youth-crime
Off Screen....
'Statistics show that young black people are overrepresented at every stage of the criminal justice system. However, it is important to place this in perspective. In 84.7% of offences in 2004-05 involving young offenders aged 10-17, the young people involved classified their ethnicity as white. Over 92% of young black people in the year 2003-04 were not subject to disposals in the youth justice system'
These statistics are highly significant as the critical investigation further raises an arguement that black youths are in fact subjected to a negative representation, and clearly the dominant representation is the on screen representation as the access to digital television is hugely superior to the traditonal consumerism of newspapers.
http://www.parliament.the-stationery-office.co.uk/pa/cm200607/cmselect/cmhaff/181/18105.htm
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