questionnaires - methods in context
done in note form
- Created by: Rhianna Hall
- Created on: 12-06-14 13:01
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- Questionnaires
- areas of use
- attitudes to crime/ policing etc
- experiments of offending/ being a victim etc
- self-reported offending
- e.gs of use
- British Crime Survey
- Self-report studies
- Practical issues
- quick & cheap - large quantity of data on crime
- literacy levels - avoid etechnical words/ limit no. of questions
- writing questions - wording can influence response
- Ethical issues
- under 16s - consent f/ parens/ guardian
- may cause distress - inappropriate to ask young people about victims of sexual crime
- reliability/ rep
- self-report = replicable as fixed q's asked
- but hard to compare
- low response rate - low for those w/ a crim record - biased sample
- self-report = replicable as fixed q's asked
- objectivity
- official interests dom the selection of topics,q's & definitions of concepts
- gov department dictates its requirements & have strong control over questionnaire design
- validity
- retrospective - can over-exag to appear tough/ underestimate & hids their crim (fear/ distrust)
- researchers impose their meanings - wording/ selection - reflect their concerns
- areas of use
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