3.2 Self Report Studies Flashcards

1
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What does a self report study involve?

A

Asking people what crimes they have committed

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Self report studies are often carried out on who? Focusing on what?

A

Young people

Focused on certain types of crime and deviance

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What sort of offences are focused on?

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Minor ones not picked up in police figures

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4
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They may be qualitative such as the jack roller (shaw) consisting of unstructured interviews to build what?

A

Life history of the criminal giving an insight into criminality rather than measuring crime

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Most self reports are quantitative and involve what?

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List of offences from which the respondent selects those they’ve committed

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The findings of these studies can create a challenge to what?

A

The typical criminal stereotype reinforces by the stats

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Campbell - levels of crime and deviance admitted by females and males were what?

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Closer than the stats suggest

Implying the stats overemphasise male involvement in crime

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Self report studies are often what in nature?

A

Longitudinal

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What does it mean that self reports are longitudinal?

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Follow same participants over a number of years to get an overview

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10
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Longitudinal self reports measure variables such as what?

A
Family background 
Peers
Education 
Area 
Gender
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The Farrington Caimbridge study followed the crimes of who?

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411 boys aged 8-32 from 1961

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The Edinburgh study followed the offending careers of who? And what were they focusing on?

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4000 youths collecting data for each young person once a year
Focus on gender differences

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13
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Why might self reports not be valid?

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People concealing offences or making false claims about their offences

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How can the validity of self reports be assessed?

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Comparing them against recorded arrests and convictions - assessing participants honesty

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Validity - west and farrington found what percentage of convicted boys admitted they had been convicted?

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94%

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Validity - west and Farrington what percentage of i convicted boys claimed to be convicted?

17
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Validity - Farrington said while young males admit their convictions who are less likely to and why?

A

Older males or females as they want to present themselves as responsible

18
Q

Self reports can also be compared with direct measures of what?

19
Q

Farrington gave young people the opportunity to steal and compared what?

A

Actual stealing with self reported stealing

20
Q

What is attrition?

A

Participation and drop out rates

21
Q

Attrition - the participants most difficult to find and interview tend to do what?

A

Commit the most offences

22
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Farrington- a study with a high attrition rate is likely to miss what?

A

Number of frequent offenders and underestimate the number of offences committed

23
Q

How did the Cambridge study raise an issue of cooperation?

A

Most of the uncooperative men aged 32 had uncooperative parents and were uncooperative by age 18

24
Q

Ethics - how did the Edinburgh study gain informed consent of parents?

A

Through a letter

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Ethics - how did the Edinburgh study maintain right to withdraw?
Parents had to return a tear off slip
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Ethics - in the Edinburgh study children were fully informed of what?
Studies purpose and the right to refuse
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Ethics - the children in the Edinburgh study also signed a form allowing what?
Access to their police files
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There is an issue of matching offenders definitions of criminal behaviour with what?
Police categories
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Self reports focus on what and why is this an issue?
Small samples and specific crimes | Lack of representatives