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- 1BIOLOGICAL EXPLANATIONS FOR FEMALES COMMITTING CRIMEdrives things like PMT that happens to women but women are less likely to commit crimes- less violent/aggressive
- 2PHYSCOLOGICAL EXPLANATIONS FOR FEMALES COMMITTING CRIMESEYNSECK- equal chance of man or women committing crimes.
- 3women and the home- explanations for female crimeless likely to be involved in crime, women will willingly go into marrage and the domesticated role associated with it.
- compare the nuclear family to a prision in which women are trapped in both situations
- less likely to be involved in crimes bevasue they tend to be at home, caring and nuturing for their children, also being domestic - 4social control of women in public- explanations for females committing crimewomen are socialised to not use violence- its not 'lady ike' if they're aggressive and violent, therefore they tend to stay in character and not commit/offend
- 5opportunities to commit crime- explanations for women offendingwomen have a limited chance to commit crime, as they are tied up with cleaning- being dk=omestic and caring for the children.
- 6why are statistics used to measure crime?-visual, easy to read
- easy to compare graphs
-discovering trends
- easier to see if police are being efficient
- shows where police should use recourses
- gives the public information on crime patterns
- reveals police stereotypes and assumptions - 7sources of crime statisticspolice recods
victim surveys (BRITISH CRIME SURVEY)
self-report studies
court and prision records - 8why is most crime committed by young people?-15-18 year olds
-young males are more likely to commit than females
- peer pressure/showing off/ subcultures/ bordem
- unaware of restrictions
- police stereotypes on youth as criminals
- young people; lack money, thrill seeking, excitement, 'nothing to lose'; no place in society, status frustration, no career, no family of their own etc.. - 9what is meant by a victimisation survey?a survey which asks about the public's experiences as victims of crimes
- 10what critisisms have been made of the police statisitics on crime?- not a count on the total numbers of crimes
- there will be crimes which are not reported to the police and others which are reported yet not recorded - 11what is meant by the 'dark figure of crime?'an unrecorded number of crimes
- 12what is the main method used by BCS (british crime survey)questionnaires or/and face to face interviews
- 13what types of people are not included in the BCS sample?students in halls, prisioners, meners of residential care homes, members of the armed forces, children
- 14what does CAIP stand for? and what does it mean?computer assisted personal interviewing, means; each interviewer carries a laptop to record responses
- 15what is meant by a booster sample?ensures that non-white minority ethnic groups are fully represented
- 16quantitative data- NUMBERSstructured interviews, statistics, closed questionnaires, crime statistics- police recorded crimes, victim surveys- British Crime Survey, self report studies; put yourself forward to discuss your crime experiences, court and prision records
- 17crime survey for england and walesmeasures the extent of crime in england and wales, carried out every year, records crime that might not have been reported to the police and is therefore used alongside the police records on crime figures to show a more accurate picture of the levels if crime in the country
- 18crime survey for england and wales 1. what is it? 2. why is it used?1. it is a victimised survey. it measures the amount of crime in e & w by asking whether or not you or your household has experienced any crime in the last year.
2. to measure crime against people that may go unreported e.g. minor theft are not recorded by the police. - 191. sampling for the crime survey 2. why is it useful?1. not everyone can take part as it takes too long- your address is randomly selected from the royal mail lst- 50,000 households get selected.
2. to try and fid a trend or a pattern within crimes - 20reasons for not reporting crimes1. burglary; not locked the house; asking for it, cannot claim on the insurance then, might not catch them, embarrassment.
2. vandalism- not seen as a majorly important crime, there a lot of vandalism that goes unreported ad becuase its unreported people tend to do it more as they know they can get away with it. - 21reasons for not reporting crimes1. thefts from vehicals- reported to other authorities, deal with it themselves.
2. other hosuehold thefts- innconvinient to report it - 22crime survey for ENGLAND AND WALESADVANTAGES- can see what crimes are most popular, contains crimes that are unreported, its anonymous- people might open up more, updated every year- up to date, covers the population as a whole
- 23crime survey for ENGLAND AND WALESDISADVANTAGES- very time consuming, sample is random- not representative, exculdes some people, some people might not answer it.
- 24PATTERNS OF OFFENDINGmost crime- is in urban areas, against property, by young people
- 25limitations of official crime statistics- are unreliable, and inadequate as sources about the nature and extent of crimes
- they show an unrepresentative sample of officially classified criminials that happen to have got caught, validity of results is unreliable, proble of representativness
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- OFFICIAL CRIME STATISTICS VICTIM SURVEYS SELF REPORT STUDIES CRIME AS SOCIALLY PATTERNED BEHAVIOUR
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- ellienewitt · abr 2014
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