Crime Statistics

Question 1

OCS

Answer 1

Reported and recorded

Question 2

Liked?

Answer 2

Objective, reliable and comparisons made to previous years

Question 3

Dark figure

Answer 3

OCS only represents 25% of all crime

Question 4

How the police affect OCS

Answer 4

Coughing, cuffing, counting rules, skewing, clearance rates

Question 5

Approaches to police

Answer 5

Consensual Functionalist (serve community)
Conflict Marxist ( serve the ruling class)

Question 6

Approaches to social control

Answer 6

Functionalist (look after society as a whole)

Marxist (agents of the ruling class / eliminate opposition)

Question 7

CSEW

Answer 7

35,000 adults 3,000 children
Response rate of 75%
Representativeness

Question 8

Victims studies

Answer 8

2 x OCS
Attention
Dear/dislike of police
May not be accepted

Question 9

Islington crime survey

Answer 9

28% feel unsafe in own homes
1/4 of all people avoid going out at night
1/3 of all households affects by serious crime

Question 10

What is a self report study

Answer 10

Answer the questions by yourself

Question 11

Self report studies methodology

Answer 11

Questionnaires
Interviews 
Only certain crimes
Longitudinal 
Over represent WC males

Question 12

Graham & Bowling

Answer 12

Social class has no affect

Question 13

Campbell

Answer 13

Levels of crime admitted to by Males and Females were much closer that police records show

Question 14

Simmons

Answer 14

Only 23% of indictable offences in England and Wales (2002-3) were cleared up