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Statistics & Measuring Crime
Statistics on Social Class & Crime
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What do sociologists study regarding social class and crime?
Why some
classes
commit more crimes
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How do different sociologists approach social class?
Through
socio-economic status
and job roles
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What do traditional Marxists focus on in social class?
The
bourgeoisie
and the
proletariat
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What data do police and the Crime Survey of England and Wales lack?
Direct data on offenders'
social class
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What does data suggest about working-class individuals and crime?
They are more
likely
to commit crime
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What types of crimes are middle-class individuals more likely to commit?
Fraud or
tax evasion
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What do functionalist and Marxist theories explain about crime?
Why
working-class
individuals commit more crimes
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Who developed the idea of an underclass?
Charles Murray
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What did Charles Murray suggest about the welfare state?
It created welfare
dependency
and perverse
incentives
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What did Melanie Philips blame for the 2011 riots?
The
Labour Party's
social experiment
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What percentage of the working-age UK population receives out-of-work benefits?
12%
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What percentage of adults prosecuted after the 2011 riots were on benefits?
35%
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What demographic made up 90% of the rioters prosecuted?
Male
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What might the statistics from the 2011 riots support?
Functionalist
and
left realist
explanations
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What do left realists point to regarding low-income families?
Relative deprivation
and social exclusion
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What do Marxists argue about wealthy crimes and statistics?
They often go
unreported
in statistics
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What is white-collar crime?
Crimes committed by the
middle class
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Why are white-collar crimes less likely to result in convictions?
They are
harder
to detect
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What does corporate crime refer to?
Crimes committed by
companies
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What is a common type of corporate crime?
Fraud
or
tax
evasion
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How have corporate crimes historically been treated?
Not routinely
prosecuted
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What do ecological explanations for crime examine?
Crime distribution among
geographical
locations
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What is the "tipping point" in crime theory?
A point where crime
escalates
in an area
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What is the nocturnal economy?
Growth of
nightlife
leading to crime
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What did Hobbs and Lister study in relation to crime?
The
timing
of when crimes occur
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What was the impact of the 2005 licensing law on crime?
Pushed
violent crime
times back
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How are white-collar and corporate crimes treated in recent years?
More seriously with media interest
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What might happen to wealthy criminals in the justice system?
They might be treated more severely
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