Chapter 2: The social disruption of crime and deviance

Question 1

What is the functionalist perspective on crime statistics?

Answer 1

Positive

Positivist perspective who believe statistics are reliable and valid

Question 2

What is the Marxist perspective on crime statistics?

Answer 2

Negative

Official statistics reflect ruling class ideology

Question 3

What is the feminist perspective of crime statistics?

Answer 3

Negative

Underplay role of women as victims

Question 4

What is the interactionist perspective on crime statistics?

Answer 4

Negative

Distortion of reality and tells us more about who compiled them then the crime rate

Question 5

What is the Left Realist perspective on crime statistics?

Answer 5

Positive

Have some use and shouldn’t be rejected out of hand

Question 6

What 2 way are crime statistics produced?

Answer 6

Crime Survey of England and Wales (CSEW)

Official Crime Survey (OCS)

Question 7

What is the Official Crime Survey (OCS)?

Answer 7

Police recorded crime

Court, prison, police records

Published quarterly

Nationwide

Question 8

What is the Crime Survey of England and Wales?

Answer 8

Victim survey

Published quarterly

47,000 people

Relies on memory

Question 9

What are the limitations of the Official Crime Survey?

Answer 9

Not all crimes recorded/ reported

Government manipulation

Domestic violence (80% invisible)

Miss dark figure of crime

Limited usefulness due to social construction

Cannot compare with pre-2002 statistics

Question 10

What are the limitations of the Crime Survey of England and Wales?

Answer 10

Relies on memory - danger of subjective exaggeration

Invisible/ Victimless crime not recorded

Doesn’t include people with no fixed abode

Excludes victimless crime

Question 11

What was PILKINGTON ‘Dark Figure of Crime’?

Answer 11

Many crimes not included in OCS

Domestic violence is 80% higher in CSEW than OCS

Question 12

What are the problems with the administration of the OCS?

Answer 12

1998-1999 gov changed how crime is recorded

CAMPBELL- female offending is much higher than OCS

Pilkington- Dark Figure of Crime

Question 13

What does BOX say about OCS?

Answer 13

OCS diverts attention away from M/C and corporate crime which aren’t pursued as much

Question 14

What do criminologists say about theoretical problems with OCS?

Answer 14

For every 100 crimes:

47 reported
25 recorded
5 conviction

Question 15

According to CSEW, what percentage of the population is a victim every year?

Answer 15

20%

Question 16

According to CSEW, what percentage of poorer households are more likely to be burgled?

Answer 16

6%

Question 17

What do LEA and YOUNG say abut the CSEW?

Answer 17

It focuses on the wrong samples of the population

Victim surveys need to focus on inner-city areas