Unreported crime Study guides, Revision notes & Summaries

Model answer that was created and used by two A* students who both received 100% in the final Unit 1 exam. Detailed AND clear explanation of all 9 reasons crime goes unreported along with two model answers. These model answers can be used to achieve full marks in the unit 1 exam (when applying correctly to the brief).

WJEC Criminology Unit 1 (Latest 2024/ 2025 Update) Questions and Verified Answers| 100% Correct| Grade A Q: Give reasons why the following crimes may go unreported: - Common assault - Domestic abuse - Vandalism - Rape - Victimless crimes Answer: Common assault: People may feel that the police would not take it seriously. Domestic abuse: Male victims may be embarrassed. Vandalism: People may feel it is someone else's problem. Rape: Victims may not want to re-live the ex...

AC 1.3 Explain the consequences of unreported crime Unit 1 Criminology WJEC Changing awareness of crime

WJEC Criminology Unit 1 Exam Prep (Latest 2024/ 2025 Update) Questions and Verified Answers| 100% Correct| Grade A Q: Hate crimes Any crime that is perceived by the victim to be motivated by prejudice or hate based on race, religion, sexual orientation, disability or transgender Q: Honour crime Answer: This is a punishment for people who have bought shame on their families Q: Shafilea Ahmed Answer: She was killed by her parents using a plastic bag to suffocate her a...

Criminology Exam Questions & Answers 2023/2024 The dark figure of crime refers to? crime that occurs at night. crime that is not reported to the police. crimes committed by the police. bias crimes. - ANSWER-crime that is not reported to the police A(n) ________ crime is one where even the individual who was victimized is unaware of the crime. unreported unknown victimless undiscovered - ANSWER-undiscovered Which of the following is most likely to result in ...

What are the problems in defining crime? - Answer 1) Cultural issues- what is considered a crime in one country may not be considered a crime in another. e.g. having more than one wife is bigamy and is not the same in another country 2) Historical issues- definitions of crime change overtime e.g. homosexuality was legalized in 1976 What are the three ways of measuring crime? - Answer 1) Official Statistics 2) Victim Surveys 3) Offender Surveys What are official statistics? - Answer Figur...

Problems with defining crime - Time, age and cultural relativism Official statistics - Government records of the total number of crimes reported and recorded Dark figure - Number of crimes that go unreported or unrecorded Victim surveys - Asks people to document crimes they have been a victim of in the past year Offender surveys - Involves people self reporting the number and types of crimes they have committed Offender profiling - Aims to narrow the list of suspects Top down approach - M...

What are the differences between criminology and criminal justice? - Answer-Criminology: - scientific study of crime and criminals, etiology of crime: who what where when and why - theory driven - scientific method - ideal world, abstract - careers in research, teaching, criminal profiling - questions about recurrence of crime, how law impacts crime, societal response to crime, and why some acts are criminalized Criminal Justice: - reducing crime, operations of the system, controlling c...

The definition of CONSENT per the Illinois Compiled Statutes is... A. Based on the manner of dress of the Victim at the time of an incident. B. A freely given agreement to the act of sexual penetration or sexual conduct in question. C. A lack of resistance to the act of sexual penetration or sexual conduct in question. D. Based on the initiators gut feeling. - Answer B. A freely given agreement to the act of sexual penetration or sexual conduct in question. According to the Illinois Compil...

Definition of Crime - Culture - Answer Crime varies across different countries and cultures, what one country may be regard as a crime, another may not. Definition of Crime - Age - Answer The age of criminal responsibility in the UK is 10. This is the age at which a child knows the difference between right and wrong and can be charged as a criminal. Definition of Crime - Context - Answer Laws can change over time so some laws that define an act as a crime may change and make that act legal....