Measuring Crime

Question 1

What is Official statistics?

Answer 1

are collected by the government

Question 2

What is Official crime rate?

Answer 2

are statistics that complied using police, court and prison records

Question 3

What are sources of Crime stats?

Answer 3

-Police recorded crime
-Victim surveys
-Prison records
-Court records
-Self-report studies

Question 4

Police recorded crime?

Answer 4

-Cover wide range of offences than the Criminal survey for England and Wales (CSEW) include crime against business and non residents such as visitors and tourist
-But it doesn’t include crimes that are not reported to discovered by or recorded by the police

Question 5

What is Dark figure of crime?

Answer 5

describe the amount of unreported or undiscovered crime

Question 6

Can we trust official statistics as much as we think?

Answer 6

• Detection-not all crimes are detected.If it hasn’t been detected then we cannot include it in our official statistics
• Reporting- Many crimes are not reported by the police.Not everyone can call in and report their crimes
• Recording-Not all reported crimes by the police only about 40% of offences are actually recorded by police

Question 7

Evaluation of Official statistics?

Answer 7

-It’s valid because it’s done by government professional
-It’s reliable because everyone gets the same questions and can be repeated a lot
-it’s not represent all people because dark figures crime