crime and media key words

Question 1

what is cuffing?

Answer 1

• the underrecording of reported crimes

Question 2

what is nodding?

Answer 2

• an agreement between officers and suspects to confess to a large amounts of offences in porison for reward eg reduced sentence

Question 3

what is a victimisation study?

Answer 3

• the study of who the victims of crime are

Question 4

what is OFCOM?

Answer 4

• the equivalent of ofsted in the media
• they regulate the media