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Methods of collecting stats about crime - Coggle Diagram
Methods of collecting stats about crime
Primary
Primary data is information collected by sociologists and
criminologists for their own purposes
Methods
social surveys,
questionnaires,
Interviews,
participant observation,
experiments
Qualitive
Data which is non-numerical - what cannot be ‘measured
Feelings, viewpoints and opinions, insights, experiences,
descriptions
May be produced from primary research methods such as
unstructured interviews and participant observations or extracted
from secondary sources such as diaries and autobiographies
Examples
Participant observation
Unstructured interviews
Letters
Newspaper articles
Secondary
Secondary data is information that has been collected by someone else, but that the sociologist can then use
Sources
official statistics,
documents such as letters,
diaries,
newspapers,
media broadcasts,
reports
Quantitative
Data in a numerical form
It usually comes in of Statistics, percentages, proportions
Most often represented in the form of a graph, table or pie chart
Data may be produced from primary research methods such as a
social survey or secondary sources such as official statistics
Examples
The comparative method
Social surveys
Structured questionnaires
Formal/structured interviews
Non-participant observation