Topic versus Resources Flashcards
1
Q
What does Cicourel’s study have implications for?
A
The use we make of official crime statistics recorded by the police.
2
Q
What does Cicourel argue about official crime statistics?
A
It does not give us a valid picture of the patterns of crime and cannot be used as a resource, instead used as a topic for sociologists to investigate.
3
Q
What does using official crime statistics as a topic mean?
A
We must not take crime statistics at face value, instead, we should investigate the process that created them.
4
Q
What will using OFS as a topic shed light on?
A
The activities of the control agencies and how they process and label certain types of people as criminal
