Measuring Crime
Cards (21)
- How is the distribution of criminality often expressed?
- What does the crime rate represent?
- What are crime rates typically broken down into?
- What was the percentage increase in the murder rate in 2017?
- What was the percentage increase in knife crime in 2017?
- How many consecutive years has the overall crime rate increased?
- What generates official crime statistics?
- Why did the Office for National Statistics remove their "gold standard" in 2014?
- What are the key sources of information on criminality trends?
- What do interpretivist sociologists question about police statistics?
- What can police statistics create according to interpretivist sociologists?
- What is the "dark figure of crime"?
- Why might people not report a crime?
- What type of crimes have historically not been reported to the police?
- What is a reason some people may not realize they are victims of a crime?
- What does the Home Office conduct annually to assess criminality levels?
- What type of survey is the Crime Survey of England and Wales?
- What does the Crime Survey ask participants about?
- What limitation does the Crime Survey have regarding data collection?
- How can victims' prejudices affect the Crime Survey data?
- What are the contested aspects of social distribution of crime data?