Measurements of crime

Introduction
1. Crime is recorded every year
2. Official Statistics
3. Britsh crime survey
4. Self-report studies
5. define crime
Official statistics
1. Two types
  1. 1. Total number of crimes known the police
  2. 2. Social Characteristics
    1. Cheap and easy
      1. easily compared
        Few ethical problems
        Quantitive method- Povsistivist
2. Evidence
  1. 6,47000- 80% recorded
    1. Why crimes go unrecorded
      1. Lack of awarness
      2. Frightened
      3. Trival
    2. Doesn't record all crime
      1. Cicourel arges that the police are prone to judging people meaning that OS are a social construct
        Becker also argues that devaince is a product of lables attrubuted to indivduals
  2. 30% of offences were not recorded
  3. 40% makes OS are theft
3. Police
  1. Coughing- police encourage people to own up to crime
  2. Cuffing- when the police do not record crimes think they will be unable to solve
4. Merton used the offical statistics
  1. Functionalist consensus, won't like the idea of being false
    1. Marxist capatalism is keeping masses undercontrol
British Crime survey
1. Victim study
2. Proves that criminal stats are unreliable
  1. Representive 48,000
  2. Overcomes the official statistics
3. Shows less then half crimes go unreported
  1. Graham + Bowling- Class doesn't matter
  2. Feminist show women confessing
4. Neo marxist- Hazel Croall
  1. Excludes many crimes due to vicitms need to be aware.
  2. Based on memory
  3. Ignore white collar crime and crime for under 16s
Self report studies
1. Studies not through the police
  1. All crime commited by an indivdual
  2. Ignores large crime
    1. White collar
    2. Validity- as the police are not involved and chose what to record
    3. Embarrasment
2. Low response rate

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