Measurements and patterns of crime studies and stats

Question 1

According to the British crime survey (Home office, 1998) what are some of the reasons why individuals sometimes don’t report crime to the police?

Answer 1

too trivial to bother police, a personal matter between friends and family, fear of reprisals

Question 2

Who recognised that since the 1970’s there has been a huge increase in the number of statistics gathered on crime and other anti-social behaviour?

Answer 2

Maguire (2002)

Question 3

What did Garland (2001) acknowledge as being a key reason in the expansion of statistics regarding crime and deviance?

Answer 3

the fact that there is presently much less faith in the government to catch and deal with all criminals than there used to be

Question 4

What percentage of crime in 2008/09 was property crime?

Answer 4

54%

Question 5

In regards to violence, what percentage of the time do the perpetrator and victim know each other?

Answer 5

88%

Question 6

How can repeated victimization affect people?

Answer 6

as well as some people being more likely to be victimised, some are actually targeted more than once: 0.4% of households accounted for 22% of burglaries