Documents {Crime & Deviance}
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- Created on: 21-12-12 21:32
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- Documents {Crime & Deviance}
- Practical Issues
- Due to the CJS being run by the government, large amounts of data about crime are created which are then made public
- Includes policy statements, sentencing guidelines, minutes of meetings.
- Ethical Issues
- Sensitive material may not be made public
- Personal documents like suicide notes or diary entries need greater anonymity due to the potential consequences.
- Reliablity
- Researchers are able to draw direct comparisons. However human errors when completing reduce reliablity
- Representativeness
- Due to some documents being legally requires, material is likely to be representative.
- However due tot the scale of the material, it can be very time consuming to analyse.
- Personal documents created by offenders or police officers are less likely to be representative.
- Interpretation
- Some crimes leave a documentary trail, like fraud
- But this is very complex and requires particular skills to unravel what happened.
- Some crimes leave a documentary trail, like fraud
- Validity
- Personal documents are useful for providing insights into meanings held by those in CJS and therefore are high in validity.
- However all documents are open to different interpretations. Also not sure what the author has kept back
- Practical Issues
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