Crime and Deviance 1

What is the definition of crime?

Doing something that warrants punishment by the state

What is the age of criminal responsibility in the UK?

10

What did Blackburn argue?

Crime is a conscious decision

What is the dark figure of crime?

Amount of unreported or undiscovered crime

What are Official Statistics?

Quantitative data collected by the police and used by the government

What is the CSEW?

Face-to-face survey collecting data from households that are selected at random

How many households were selected for CSEW?

50000

How were the households in CSEW selected?

Postcode lottery

What are Offender Surveys??

Taking information from offenders

Why do they carry out Offender Surveys?

Develop and understanding of their behaviours

What did the CSEW find?

No change in assaults since the previous year while the police noted an increase

What did the OCJS (type of Offender Survey) find?

Anti social behaviour and use of substances

What do functionalists think of crime statistics?

Uncritical

What do Marxists think of crime statistics?

Recognise the systematic bias and it is part of the ideological weaponry of the bourgeoisie

What do interactionists think of crime statistics?

Useless as they are a social construction

What do feminists think of crime statistics?

Underplay the extent of females as victims and women who conform to gender stereotypes are more likely to be let off

What do left realists think of crime statistics?

Accept that they have some value