Crime Recording Methods
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- Created on: 11-10-22 16:05
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- Crime Stats Methods
- Home Office (Police recorded Crime)
- The home office gathers all of the police stations recorded crime and turns them into tables with the figures.
- Quantitive data is easy to read and identify trends from
- The police have to follow a standardised recording system
- The circumstance amount to a crime defined by law
- A police report must be issued for all reported crimes, an incident is recorded on the balance of probability, a crime remains recorded unless there is verifiable evidence to disprove it.
- The statistics can be accessed by the public online
- The home office doesn't account for unrecorded crimes
- The stats are broken into type of offence, geography and time period so its easy to identify cause for trends
- The home office gathers all of the police stations recorded crime and turns them into tables with the figures.
- CSEW (Victim Surveys)
- This is a self reported victim survey then a sample of the population is interviewed.
- In-depth qualitative research to show why some crimes are not reported to police and to find which ones.
- Anonymous so people feel more inclined to tell the researcher the truth.
- Research gets different results from the others
- The crime survey typically reports a higher amount of crime
- The CSEW includes many things that the PRC doesn't eg the survey covers new and emerging crime and separates the experiences of 10-15 year olds in a shorter interview (2009)
- Strengths
- can form preventative strategies, sees victims view point
- large sample, standardized interviewing, uncovers hidden crime
- First hand knowledge not police interpretation
- Confidential
- Limitations
- Victimless crime not recorded, but relies on victims memory
- is not sent to everyone, not represented unemployed more likely to do
- Victims may exaggerate, results maybe be bias
- Victims can retract statements
- Home Office (Police recorded Crime)
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