main reference could be bowling and phillips (2002), "racism, crime and justice". harlow: longman. key issues include: what forms is involvement of "asians" in the criminal justice system does this/should this lead to a confirmation of the assimilationist paradigm, or a critical appraisal of it this also gives rise to a debate on "cultural defences" and "honour crimes" - to what extent does english law admit such defences we also have a discourse shift recently from "race" to "culture" crucially, what questions have not yet been asked, and seek to be asked, about ethnic minority involvement in the CJS? is there something about the ideological status of criminal law in particular which prevents full discussion of plurality/pluralism? (image of equality of justice) (there is a more detailed bibliography but this is just for directions)