patterns and trends in offending (social class)

Question 1

crimes associated with senior positions

Answer 1

state crimes inside the government

Question 2

crimes associated with upper middle class

Answer 2

coorporate crimes

Question 3

crimes associated with middle class

Answer 3

white collar crimes like fraud

Question 4

crimes assocaited with the working class

Answer 4

burglary and street crime

Question 5

national unemployment rate

Answer 5

5%

Question 6

Unemployment rate of prisoners before imprisonment

Answer 6

67% (social exclusion unit)

Question 7

Omolade 2014

Answer 7

43% of prisoners had no academic qualifications, compared with 18% nationally

Question 8

Williams 2012

Answer 8

Prisoners more likely to experience running away from home, violence, drug/alcohol misuse in the family, regular taunting, exclusion from school

Question 9

Self report studies suggest that the differences in offending rates between w/c and middle class is……..

Answer 9

not as high as the prison population suggests

Question 10

Cavadino and Dignan 2001

Answer 10

‘Somehow between the commission of offenses and the official responses of prosecution and punishment, the difference between the classes gets vastly magnified’

Question 11

Why might w/c be overrepresented in prison?

Answer 11

• visible crimes
• cant afford lawyers
• w/c negatively stereotyped

Question 12

social class intersection with gender

Answer 12

female offenders are more likely to be on benefits

Question 13

social class interception with age

Answer 13

police focus -> street crimes (w/c) -> visibility of youth crime

Question 14

social class intersection with ethnicity

Answer 14

labelling of w/c black youths and stop and search of black youths

Question 15

Sunderlands definition of white collar crimes

Answer 15

crimes commited by persons of high social status and respectability in the course of their occupations

Question 16

evaluation

Answer 16

we cannot be sure that w/c commit more crimes or more likely to be convicted -> dark figure of crime

Question 17

The Islington Crime Survey found that

Answer 17

• poorer households are more likely to be burgled
• poorer communities are more likely to be vctims of crime
• poorer people more likely to suffer repeat victimisation

Question 18

Chambliss 1975
‘The law of contradictory class locations’

Answer 18

• certain types of crime are more prevalent among different socio-economic groups
• w/c engage in crime in reponse to their socio-economic conditions
• direct crime at w/c

Question 19

Young and Kinsey

Answer 19

Victims are not all the same and the poor suffer more

Question 20

CSEW

Answer 20

risk of being a victim of burglary and theft positively correlate with the level of unemployment in the victims community