Sociology - C&D - Measuring Crime - Victim surveys

Question 1

Realist Victim surveys

Answer 1

An alternative to the CSEW

Question 2

What does the CSEW neglect compared to realist victim surveys?

Answer 2

That much crime is concentrated in inner city areas on deprived council estates. Some people who are interviewed will still not report that they have been a victim of crime

Question 3

Who made the Islington Crime survey?

Answer 3

Lea and Young (1986) by the centre of criminology

Question 4

Islington Crime Survey

Answer 4

In depth survey that focuses on victims of crime and their experiences within a certain geographical area. Interviews are sympathetically conducted in an unstructured way, looking at the impact of crime on individuals

Question 5

What was found in the Islington Crime survey?

Answer 5

• 33% of households experienced serious crime in the last 12 months - Some women didn’t go out after dark for fear of being attacked, Zedner (1984) - Crime was the second biggest problem that people encountered

Question 6

What type of sociologists were Lea and Young?

Answer 6

Left Realist

Question 7

What type of data is collected in the Islington Crime survey?

Answer 7

Qualitative data

Question 8

What did the Islington Crime Survey find a high rate of?

Answer 8

female victimisation

Question 9

Zedner (1984)

Answer 9

States women have a realistic fear of crime as there is a high amount of unreported rape

Question 10

What were the advantages of the Islington Crime Survey?

Answer 10

• Interpretivists favour qualitative data that provides more context

Question 11

What were the disadvantages of the Islington Crime Survey?

Answer 11

• Positivists would criticise unstructured interviews as it uses too much qualitative data - Low in reliability as its location dependent

Question 12

What did Feminist victim surveys use?

Answer 12

Unstructured in depth interviews