Sociology: Outline and assess the usefulness of official statistics in measuring crime. Crime is basically any sort of behaviour or an act which breaks laws of a society and is punished by the legal system. What is considered criminal or deviant is culturally determined. This means that what is considered criminal or deviant changes with time and place‚ as the values‚ norms and expectations change. What may not be acceptable in one society at a particular time may be acceptable in another country
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Outline and assess the usefulness of official statistics of crime to sociologists. There are three main sources of information about the crimes for sociologists – the official crime statistics‚ which are collected by the police and are presented as secondary data for sociologists; victim survey such as British Crime Survey‚ which is also collected by the police and sponsored by the government‚ and in order to collect primary data sociologists use self-report studies and its aim is to uncover the
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Although official’ statistics should provide an accurate representation of crime‚ criminologists and sociologists are keen to emphasize that they should be seen in a critical mindset. This essay is focused on determining just to what extent official statistics provide an accurate representation of the extent of crime through examining different arguments concerning their limitations and benefits. This essay also focuses on other types of crime data such as the victim survey and qualitative data
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Assess the usefulness of crime statistics to a sociological understanding of crime? Criminal statistics are usually quoted as ’hard facts’; are often used to support the view that there is a rapidly increasing rate of serious crime in modern society. It is on the basis of these statistics that important decisions are made by governments in relation to their policies towards crime and its treatment. However the positivistic reliance on such statistics as the basis of their sociology has been brought
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Justin Dodson 25 Nov 2012 Crime statistics as stated by the FBI’s Crime in the United States 2008 can paint a picture of crime in America; unfortunately‚ the picture is not 100% reliable. It is important for all users to become as well educated as possible about how to understand and quantify the nature and extent of crime in the United States and in any of the more than 17‚000 jurisdictions represented by law enforcement contributors to the Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program. Some factors
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argument‚ identify dilemmas associated with relying on police statistics as a measure of crime. When the annual crime statistics are reported‚ they can generate many emotions within society. These feelings can be conflicting depending on whether the crime statistics show an increase or decrease in crime fields. When crime rates are down the community feels relieved‚ protected and safe‚ restoring confidence in the legal system‚ however when crime rates are high‚ there is a sense of community fear‚ insecurity
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S T I C S A N D R E S E A R C H CRIME AND JUSTICE Bulletin Contemporary Issues in Crime and Justice NSW Bureau of Crime Statistics and Research Number 54 February 2001 What Causes Crime? Don Weatherburn It is difficult to find a succinct‚ broad and non-technical discussion of the causes of crime. This bulletin provides a brief overview‚ in simple terms‚ of what we know about those causes. After presenting some basic facts about crime‚ the bulletin is divided into three main sections
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Official Statistics on crime are often likened to the ¡§tip of an Iceberg¡¨. Critically assess this assertion in light of the ¡§dark figure¡¨ of crime and any new forms of data that can provide a clearer picture of the true extent of crime. Crime is continuously changing in its definition in people¡¦s perceptions with no complex classification being universally accepted. This forms the basis of the problems faced when attempting to count crime‚ who determines what crime is; the government of
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Crime Statistics The crime statistics focus on giving out specific detailed information to the public and the government of United States about all the crime taken place in a certain period of time. The crime related information for the statistics is collected and published by different federal government agencies such as FBI‚ the department of Justice‚ the National Institute of Justice‚ etc. The statistics include data about how much crime is there; when and where crime occurs; what type of crime
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Evaluate the usefulness of Marxist theory to our understanding of crime and deviance (40 marks) Synopticity - Crime & Deviance sociological theory Marxist explanations of crime and deviance‚ like their work on other areas like the family and education‚ rest on an economic and structural analysis of society that sees a class struggle between the proletariat and the bourgeoisie. This struggle comprises the attempts by the proletariat to free themselves from the domination of the bourgeoisie
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