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Define Crime |
An act committed in violation of the law where the consequence is punishment. Ways |
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Ways of Measuring Crime: 1) Official Statistics |
Government records of the total number of crimes reported to the police and recorded in official figures. Published in the Home office |
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Ways of Measuring Crime 2) Victim surveys |
Records of people’s experiences of crime over a specific period |
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Ways of measuring crimes 3) Offender Surveys |
A self report measure that requires people to record the number of times and types of crime they committed over a period of time. |
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Ways of measuring crimes 3) Offender Surveys |
A self report measure that requires people to record the number of times and types of crime they committed over a period of time. |
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What is offender profiling ? |
An investigative tool employed by the police when solving crimes, the main aim is to narrow the field of enquiry and the list of likely suspects. |
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What is the Top-down approach? |
Profilers start with a pre- established typology and work down go assign offenders to one of two categories : disorganised / organised. |
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Describe the characteristics of an organised and disorganised offender? |
Organised : an offender who shows evidence of planning, deliberately targets the victim, above average intelligence. Disorganised: show evidence of planning, event may be spontaneous, tend to have a lower than average IQ. |
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