How Is Crime Measured In The uk? Flashcards

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How do we get our information?

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Police recorded stats, newspapers, radio, social media, tv, witnesses, victims

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Three different methods to build picture of crime patterns:

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Police recorded statistics
Victim surveys
Self- report studies

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What are police recorded statistics?

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Data from records kept by the police and other official agencies

  • published every 6 months by home office
  • give accurate view of how the CJS processes offenders through arrests and trials
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What does cjs stand for?

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Criminal justice system

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How can police recorded statistics be considered a social construct?

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Lower classes may not report as much as middle classes - not all crime are reported
- what is considered a crime differs in societies - there are no objective facts because they are made by us

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Why might crimes not be reported to the police? (10 ways)

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  • Too trivial
  • fear retaliation
  • too embarrassing
  • fear of disbelief
  • don’t know you have been a victim
  • not in a position to report a crime
  • fear for the perpetrator
  • fear implication - being associated with a crime
  • police won’t solve
  • no evidence
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Moore, Aiken and Chapmen

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See police as filters, only recording some crimes reported to them

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Who see the police as filters?

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Moore, Aiken and Chapman

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Why might the police only record some crimes reported to them? (3 ways) Moore, Aiken and Chapmen

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  1. Seriousness: offence too trivial
  2. Social status of victim: mc get a more favoured response than Wc and homeless
  3. Discretion: less likely to be arrested if you are smart, respectful and co-operative
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Police priorities (what is a priority)

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Focused on tackling a particular type of crime

- 7% increase in number of police recorded offences involving knives or sharp instruments

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What does a rise or fall in police recorded crime not mean?

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Actual level of crime in society has changed

  • dates can be affected by changes in recording practises
  • policing activities and victims willingness to report crimes
  • some crimes over represented
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What percentage of crimes reported don’t appear on official statistics?

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40%

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Why is it impossible to be precise about the proportion of crime?

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Not all crimes are reported or recorded

- large proportion of crime that the police do not know about

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Trends in crime 1950-1980

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1950-1980 - time of economic growth and social anomie with changes in the role of women and wider society

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1980-1990

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Rapid increase economic recession led to higher relative deprivation and unemployment

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1990-2016

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Gradual annual decline: changes in reporting, new types of crime not included i.e. cyber bullying

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Relative deprivation

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Lack of recourses to sustain lifestyles, activities and amenities than an individual or group are accustomed to