Ethnic breakdown of grooming gangs in Britain:CEOP (Out of Mind, Out of Sight, 2011):- Asians were 11.5 times more likely to engage in group child sexual exploitation than Whites
Berelowitz (I thought I was the only one, 2012):- Perpetrators were 35% White (of which only 11% were British), 28% Asian and Middle Eastern, 16% Black.
- Asians & Middle Easterners were 10 times more likely to commit group CSE than Whites, while Blacks were 13.4 times more likely.
CEOP (Threat Assessment of Child Sexual Exploitation and Abuse, 2013):- 75% of perpetrators were Asian, implying Asians are 40 times more likely to commit grooming gang crimes than non-Asians.
Berelowitz (If it's not better, it's not the end, 2015):- Asians and Blacks were 4.2 and 11.8 times more likely to engage in grooming gang crimes than Whites.
- Asians and Blacks were 2.13 and 4 times more likely to engage in all forms of child sexual exploitation than Whites.
Skidmore (Organised crime and child sexual exploitation in local communities, 2016):- Those from minority ethnic backgrounds were over-represented
Rafiq & Adil (Group-Based Child Sexual Exploitation: Dissecting "Grooming Gangs," 2017):- Of 264 grooming gang convictions, 84% were Asian, 8% Black, 7% White, 1% unknown.
Bhatti-Sinclair (Group Localised Child Sexual Exploitation Offenders: Who and Why? 2020):- Between 1997 and 2017, 83% of those prosecuted for grooming gang crimes were Muslims
- 1 in 2,200 of the male Muslims in England and Wales over the age of 16 have been prosecuted for GLCSE