Victimization Flashcards
Who is the BCS carried out on? (Victimisation crime)
Annually, 40,000 individuals, above the age of 16
What are the OCS? (Victimisation crime)
Released every 6 months and are gathered from reported as recorded crimes
What are self report studies? (Victimisation crime)
A selected group of the population volunteer the crimes they have committed
What is negative about the BCS? (Victimisation crime)
Do not cover child crime or homelessness and do not account for victimless crime
What is wrong with the OCS? (Victimisation crime)
They are social constructions
What do criminologists suggest for ever 100 crimes committed? (Victimisation crime)
47 reported, 27 recorded, 5 solved
What is the dark figure of crime? (Victimisation crime )
Crime that cannot be seen, unreported or unrecorded
What is wrong with the role of police in the OCS? (Victimisation crime)
No standardised measure, varies from each department (unreliable)
What do interpretivists argue about OCS? (Victimisation crime)
The invalid measure only represents the attitudes of the police, rather than reflecting the crime itself
What did Bowling and Phillips find? (Victimisation crime)
High proportion of black drivers in nice cars were stopped due to the assumption they were drug dealers
What do Marxists suggest about courts? (Victimisation crime)
75% of judges are privately educated, clouding judgement upon some criminals
What do realists suggest? (Victimisation crime)
There’s a neglect to the concentration of inner city crime - 1/4 of all people avoided going out at night, and 28% felt unsafe in their own home (fear is among the poor)
How do feminists critique this view? (Victimisation crime)
They surveys do not take an active role with the victim. Women should be able to freely talk about being the victim and have a ‘voice’
When was the British crime survey introduced? (Victimisation crime)
1982
