TOPIC 2

Question 1

What are the costs of crime?

Answer 1

1. Taking security measures
2. Expenses landing on the criminal justice system
3. Consequences of crime

Question 2

Who benefits from crime statistics

Answer 2

Government, council, police and public

Question 3

Why is crime measure?

Answer 3

1. Measure the quality of life
2. Evaluate the machinery of social control
3. Estimate how likely to become a victim
4. Develop and test crimonological theories

Question 4

What are the two most common methods of measuring crime?

Answer 4

1. Police data
2. Crime victim surveys

Question 5

What are the dark figures of crime?

Answer 5

the amount of unknown crime unreported

Question 6

Name 3 strengths of police data?

Answer 6

1. Provide useful insight into relative crime trends over time and between areas
2. Voluminous data with lots of detail such as: location, age, sex
3. Data can be used for all organisations as it is official

Question 7

What are crime victimisation survey?

Answer 7

Annual survey to pick up the crimes unreported.

Question 8

What are two advantages of crime victimisation surveys?

Answer 8

1. Captures dark figures of crime
2. Has broader range of offenses

Question 9

3 factors of the effect of reporting crime

Answer 9

1. Lack of trust in police
2. Is an offender in the case
3. Worried (family domestic)

Question 10

Attrition

Answer 10

Process by which particular acts come defined as crimes