police recorded crime

Question 1

representativeness prc

Answer 1

all recorded crimes in the uk are include

not all crimes are reported eg domestic violence and white collar crime
- loss of faith in police, unaware they are a victim

Simmens - 2002 - 42% of crimes reported 60% recorded - DFC

Question 2

validity prc

Answer 2

positivists - accurate and useful reflection of the real patterns of criminal behaviour

interactionists - social construct - some groups are more likely to be labelled criminal than others - PRC reflect these processes - DFC

Question 3

reliability prc

Answer 3

the criminal justice agencies collect data in the same way everytime

Question 4

strengths prc

Answer 4

easy accessible and cheap - gov required to publish

positivist, functionalist - used extensively in research by many sociologists such as Durkheim - reveal the social characteristics of those who have been processed by the criminal justice system

Question 5

limitations prc

Answer 5

more likely to pick up on crimes in public spaces

problems with comparison between countries over time

Question 6

marxist prc

Answer 6

reflect police bias eg apparent link between crime and class

Chambliss - w/c more likely to be scrutinised, arrested, found guilty ect

OCS doesn’t include white collar crime, corporate crime or state crime

Question 7

interpretivist prc

Answer 7

PRC are a social construct - more groups likely to be labelled as criminal than others

Question 8

feminist prc

Answer 8

police less likely to record crimes against women, eg low prosecution rate for rapists, PRC ignores women