Crime

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Clues

  • Behaviour that causes harassment, distress or alarm to other people (10, 9)
  • Control of people’s behaviour based on written laws and rules. Formal social control is usually associated with the ways which the state (government) regulates and controls social behaviour. The agencies of formal social control include the police f (6, 6, 7)
  • Explains how official statistics on crime might not be solid factual data which can be relied upon. This is because the data is influences by the choices which the police and victims make when recording or reporting a crime. (8, 11)
  • Self report studies question people about their offending. It measures the extent of self-reporting of crimes such as drug use and anti-social behaviour particularly among young people. By asking people about offending it records crime which perhaps (4, 6, 7)
  • The measure of poverty in which a person’s wealth or lack of is compared to the rest of society, If they do not meet the general standard of living then they are classified as living in relative poverty. (8, 11)
  • These are the statistics collected by the police about crimes reported and dealt with by them. These statistics allow for trends to be identified over long periods of time (8, 10)
  • These are views often negative which are fixed, standardised and distorted about a particular social group such as women. These views are often based on prejudice (13, 5)
  • This is an explanation of crime that focuses on the idea that crime is committed by the values of some subcultures and the pressure of a peer group. For example boys from poor backgrounds might participate in crime as it is “the done thing” (3, 8, 8)
  • This is where sociologists take statistical data which has been collected and analysis to look for patterns and trends. (11, 8)
  • This where a person or group are subject to the same crime regularly over time (6, 13)

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