Measuring Crime
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- Created on: 07-06-19 18:38
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- Measuring Crime
- Victim Surveys
- Uses slight triangulation to find out peoples experiences of crime
- Strengths - access dark figures as crimes not reported
- Weaknesses - based on people memories and there's issue with this / not all people are asked.
- Offender survey
- People volunteer the times they've committed crime
- Strengths -reveal the kinds of offenders there are / access dark figures such as victimless crimes (drug use)
- Weakness - don't access the white collar crimes as won't admit to
- Official statistics
- Records are kept by the police and other services and includes conviction rates and the age and gender of those convicted and the punishment
- Strengths -based on processing of crime by judicial process / detect clear patterns / accurate view of the way justice system process offenders
- Weaknesses - bias as stigmatises lower class / Not all crime is reported /
- Victim Surveys
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