Unit 1 ACs (AC1.2, AC1.4, AC1.6, AC2.2)

Question 1

What are the four personal reasons for not reporting crime?

Answer 1

Fear
Shame
Not affected
Disinterest

Question 2

What are the five social/ cultural reasons for not reporting crime?

Answer 2

Lack of knowledge
Lack of public concern
Complexity
Lack of media interest
Cultural bound crime

Question 3

List three media types listed in AC1.4.

Answer 3

Gaming
Newspapers
Film

Question 4

Describe how film represents crime.

Answer 4

Wolf of Wall Street
Fraud and drugs
Glorify and trivialise

Question 5

Describe how electronic gaming represents crime.

Answer 5

Murder, vehicular crime, illegal gambling, arson, theft, assault

GTA, Red Dead Redemption, COD, Assassins Creed

Desensitises, idolises, glorifies

Question 6

Describe how newspapers represent crime.

Answer 6

Focus on violent crimes
Like knife crime
Scaremongering

Question 7

What does CSEW stand for?

Answer 7

Crime Survey for England and Wales

Question 8

What is the purpose of the CSEW?

Answer 8

To look at, and gain an understanding of the dark figure of crime- unreported crime

Question 9

What methods do the CSEW use?

Answer 9

Voluntary survey

Mostly phone interviews

Asked a set of questions by volunteers- they have a script and are trained

Question 10

Who participates in the CSEW?

Answer 10

Those who have been a victim of crime in the last 12 months

Question 11

Give two strengths of the CSEW.

Answer 11

Interviews are kept anonymous- confidentiality- ethics

Dark figure of crime

Interviewers have been trained so that they ask questions in a consistent way, interview is structured so it is the same every time- making it very reliable

Question 12

Give two weaknesses of the CSEW.

Answer 12

Telescoping can occur- participant may not have a clear memory of the event, so may not have happened within the last 12 months-causes issues with validity

Some questions may cause distress- issue with ethics

Question 13

How effective is social media as a method for a campaign for change?

Answer 13

metoo campaign used social media and gained 1.75 million retweets in the first 24 hours, on twitter

Free to use

Not everyone has it- older people for example

Question 14

How effective is television advertising?

Answer 14

Widespread- message would reach a very large audience

But they’re very expensive

WaterAid use television advertising (as well as other means, but predominantly this)made £91 million in 2019

Question 15

What does it mean to glorify something?

Answer 15

To describe or represent something as admirable.

Question 16

Define trivialise

Answer 16

Make something (a crime) seem less important, significant or complex than it actually is.