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Zonal Hypothesis: Inner Cities

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in spite of this, it was argued by Waddington 2004 that even though the police do stop a high number of black people compared to whites, he does state that there are more ethnic groups that live in inner cities and that the police simply target those high risk areas. This can be related the zonal hypothesis as inner cities are labelled as zone I and II that tend to have rates of delinquency at their highest.
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