Topic versus Resources

Question 1

What does Cicourel’s study have implications for?

Answer 1

The use we make of official crime statistics recorded by the police.

Question 2

What does Cicourel argue about official crime statistics?

Answer 2

It does not give us a valid picture of the patterns of crime and cannot be used as a resource, instead used as a topic for sociologists to investigate.

Question 3

What does using official crime statistics as a topic mean?

Answer 3

We must not take crime statistics at face value, instead, we should investigate the process that created them.

Question 4

What will using OFS as a topic shed light on?

Answer 4

The activities of the control agencies and how they process and label certain types of people as criminal