Patterns and trends in social class and crime

Question 1

What was Sutherland’s research about crime

Answer 1

‘criminal statistics show that crime has a high incidence in low socio-economic groups and a low incidence in the high socioeconomic group’.

Question 2

What did the 2002 social exclusion report say

Answer 2

shows that offenders are more likely than the general population to have grown up in care, poverty and have had a family member convicted of criminal offences.

Question 3

What are the problems with unemployment and prisoners

Answer 3

Unemployment rates in prison are 7 times as high as they are outside

Question 4

What do these unemployment statistics show

Answer 4

It is generally lower classes who end up in prison

Question 5

What did Williams find about education

Answer 5

found that offenders were more likely to have run away from home, experienced violence, truanted from school, been excluded from school and left school with no qualifications. Literacy and numeracy levels are significantly lower than for the general population.

Question 6

What did Cavadino and Dignan say about self-report studies

Answer 6

point out that ‘somehow between the commission of offences and the official response of prosecution and punishment, the differences between the classes get vastly magnified.

Question 7

What did the British Crime Survey (CSEW) say about patterns of victimisation

Answer 7

The British crime survey (2010-11) showed that young households, single parent households and unemployed people are twice as likely to be burgled or victims of violent crime than the average person.

Question 8

What did Kinsey say about victimisation and money

Answer 8

Kinsey’s research (left realist) -the Merseyside crime survey (1984) found that the poor suffer more than the wealthy