Week Four - Sources Of Crime Data Flashcards
1
Q
How many official sources of crime data are there?
A
2 and local crime surveys
2
Q
What are the two official sources of crime data?
A
Police Recorded Crime
Crime Surveys
3
Q
Police Recorded Crime
A
Dominated the Victorian era to 1970s as providing the national barometer of crime
Composed of categories of crime outlined in Home Office Counting Rules (notifiable offences)
Violence against person, sexual offences, robbery, burglary, theft, handling stolen goods, fraud and forgery, criminal damage, drug offences and ‘other offences’.
Motor offences under Road Traffic Acts recorded separately
4
Q
Crime Surveys
A
British Crime Survey/Crime Survey for England and Wales (2010)
