Unit 2-Social Inequality, Crime + Deviance Flashcards
Cctv?
Closed circuit television
Means people feel safer and it is used for good things such as helping civilians about traffic and reuniting children with parents
ASBO
Anti social behaviour disorder issues for vandalism, shotting, drinking for minimum of two years
Report in 2006 by youth justice found asbos are a new sign of status within delinquent subcultures. One in four is breached
Rates of officer recruitment from ethnic minority groups
- 6% in 2006
5. 5% in 2015
Crime statistics gender?
Males commit 2.6x more theft and handling of stolen goods
Women rarely commit sexual offences or robbery
Why men commit more crimes?
More opportunity, less observed
Different socialisation
Chivalry thesis
Inaccurate statistics
Who identified 3 costs of white collar crime?
Clinard and Meier 2001 identified
Financial harm
Physical harm
Social costs (e.g mistrust between employees)
Why white collar crime less convicted ?
Corporations deal with crime without police
Judges have similar backgrounds
Ethnicity crime statistics?
Black people 3x as likely to get arrested
Overrepresented in prison populations and stop and search statistics. Mixed race is second most likely stop and search. Least likely is Chinese and then white British.
Why more black people arrested?
Cicourel- typical delinquent
Discrimination
Social class coincides
Home Secretary ?
In a recent press conference Home Secretary Sajid Javid increase backing of stop and search even thought it targets minority groups.
Statistics on crime and age
Highest % crime
17 year old males
15 year old females
Lowest is 60+ years old
Why crime and age like this?
Subcultures, thrill, kleptomania
INACCURATE STATISTICS
Teenagers under closer social control
Older people do more white collar
Who found statistics were bad in news reports
Reiner 2007 found violent crimes are overrepresented compared with their incidence in official statistics
Why are official statistics good?
See crime over time
Allows prioritisation of resources
Compiled every year, recorded by police
Why are official statistics bad?
Based on what is recorded
Police could think
Crime too trivial
May doubt honesty of report
Victims may think would handle insensitively
