Measuring Crime
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- Created on: 18-02-16 16:15
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- Measuring Crime
- Official Statistics
- Cheap
- Readily Available
- Provide quantitative data
- Provide data for whole country
- Public don't report all crimes
- Not realise they are victim
- Embarrasment
- Family issues
- Not all reported crimes are recorded
- Dark Figure
- Only account for 25% of crime
- British Crime Survey
- Victim survey
- 50,000 people asked
- Includes crimes not reported to police
- More accurate than official stats
- Structured Interview
- Self-Report Studies
- Asking offenders to report their offending behaviour
- Offenders may not report all crimes
- More likely to identify different types of offender than official stats
- Biased selection of offences
- May ignore more serious crimes
- Biased selection of interviewees
- May not be able to interview more dangerous offenders
- Official Statistics
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