Chapter 2: The social disruption of crime and deviance Flashcards

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What is the functionalist perspective on crime statistics?

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Positive

Positivist perspective who believe statistics are reliable and valid

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What is the Marxist perspective on crime statistics?

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Negative

Official statistics reflect ruling class ideology

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What is the feminist perspective of crime statistics?

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Negative

Underplay role of women as victims

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What is the interactionist perspective on crime statistics?

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Negative

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

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What is the Left Realist perspective on crime statistics?

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Positive

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

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What 2 way are crime statistics produced?

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Crime Survey of England and Wales (CSEW)

Official Crime Survey (OCS)

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What is the Official Crime Survey (OCS)?

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Police recorded crime

Court, prison, police records

Published quarterly

Nationwide

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What is the Crime Survey of England and Wales?

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Victim survey

Published quarterly

47,000 people

Relies on memory

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What are the limitations of the Official Crime Survey?

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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

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

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Relies on memory - danger of subjective exaggeration

Invisible/ Victimless crime not recorded

Doesn’t include people with no fixed abode

Excludes victimless crime

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What was PILKINGTON ‘Dark Figure of Crime’?

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Many crimes not included in OCS

Domestic violence is 80% higher in CSEW than OCS

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What are the problems with the administration of the OCS?

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1998-1999 gov changed how crime is recorded

CAMPBELL- female offending is much higher than OCS

Pilkington- Dark Figure of Crime

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What does BOX say about OCS?

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

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What do criminologists say about theoretical problems with OCS?

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For every 100 crimes:

47 reported
25 recorded
5 conviction

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

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20%

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

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6%

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What do LEA and YOUNG say abut the CSEW?

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It focuses on the wrong samples of the population

Victim surveys need to focus on inner-city areas