Defining and measuring crime
- Created by: Bethany Cooling
- Created on: 31-05-18 19:07
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- Defining And Measuring Crime
- Problems in defining crime
- Laws change over time and across cultures
- Culture: forced marriage legal in UK but illegal in other places
- Time: being gay was considered a crime until 1967
- Time: smacking children outlawed in 2004
- Ways of measuring crime
- Official statistics
- Government records of reported crime
- Published on an annual basis
- Allows the government to develop crime-preventing strategies and policing initiatives
- Victim Surveys
- People's experiences of crime
- Document crimes they have been a victim of in the past year
- 50,000 households are randomly selected
- Offender Surveys
- Self-report crimes they have committed
- Target groups of likely offenders
- Based on risk factor such as; previous convictions, age, social background etc
- Official statistics
- Problems in defining crime
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