Official crime statistics

• British crime survey

  'Have you been a victim of crime?'
• Dark figure of crime

  Unrecorded crime. Official statistics can be manipulated
• Chambliss


  Working class appear more in official statistics.

  Saints and roughnecks
• Cohen


  Media amplification creating a moral panic.

  Mods and rockers
• Local victim survey


  More resources can be put into specific areas.

  Data is specific, not generalised
• Self report study

  'Have you commited crime'