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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
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