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Measuring crime. (Victim Surveys (Evaluation. (Victim surveys rely on…
Measuring crime.
Victim Surveys
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The main victim survey in Britain is 'The crime survey for England and Whales' which is conducted on a regular basis. #
Evaluation.
Victim surveys rely on people remembering what happened and people's memories can often be faulty or biased.
This survey doesn't consider more 'impersonal crimes ' such as fraud or corporate crime, where an individual isn't singly affected.
this is a face to face survey which collects data from 50,000 households in Britain who are selected through a postcode generator.
Offender Surveys
These surveys allow people who wouldn't normally be caught by the police to record their crimes, and they also provide a way of measuring victimless crimes.
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The Offending, crime and justice survey was a longitude study carried out between 2003 and 2006 and it took data from areas of self-report and repeatability of the crime.
Evaluation
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It can be biased, as it might be that only certain types of people, committing certain crimes, re likely o disclose information about the crimes they have committed.
Official statistics
official statistics are created by official bodies, such as the police, the criminal justice system and the civil service.
official statistics holds information on current crime surveys carried out on victims as well as those recorded by the police.
Evaluation.
Farrington and Dowds compared the crime statistics in Nottingham and two neighboring counties, discovering that the reason crime rates were higher in Nottingham was due to the police recording all crimes, including petty crime.
They are not always accurate. This is because they only account for reported crimes which mean that groups of people are being missed out, for example, the homeless are not asked, and it is possible that thy are those subjected to crime the most.
Background.
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There are main ways that crime is measured by forensic psychologists which include both qualitative data and quantitative data.
many methods that are used to measure crime often give a misleading idea of how much crime there really is.