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Categories of crimes - Answers✔White collar crimes, moral crimes, individual crimes,
technological crimes, and state crimes
What are white collar crimes? - Answers✔financially motivated nonviolent crime committed by
business and government professionals
What are moral crimes? - Answers✔actions that are considered as crimes because they are not
accepted by society, but they don't always directly harm people that aren't involved
Explain what is an individual crimes. - Answers✔crimes that are done against a person that
usually involve physical assault or verbal abuse.
What are technological crimes? - Answers✔crimes committed through the internet they usually
involve cyber bullying or cyber hacking.
what are state crimes? - Answers✔activities that break the states own criminal law this could be
the lack of doing something or actions that go against the law
Domestic abuse: male victim - Answers✔Alex Skeel, he was abused by his partner Jordan
Worth. She beat, controlled, stabbed, tortured, and she stopped him from getting medical
attention for the abuse she inflicted on him.
When was Jordan Worth jailed for abuse? - Answers✔in 2018 and is jailed for 7 1/2 years
What is coercive control? - Answers✔a pattern of acts or acts that involve threats, humiliation,
and intimidation
A real life example of coercive control. - Answers✔Sally Challen as found guilty of murdering
her husband 61 year old Richard. She was jailed for life in 2011, but then given 9 years in jail
and her convition was changed to manslaughter.
What is reliability? - Answers✔consistency of statistics that we collect.
what are unreliable statistics? - Answers✔statistics that vary from year to year.
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gives two examples of measures that are thought to be reliable. - Answers✔The Home Office and
CSEW, because the methods that they use don't show massive variation in the results year to
year.
what do differences in the results tend to show? - Answers✔real life effects like changes in the
way that crime is recorded, and/ or changes in the rates of crime.
what does the term validity mean? - Answers✔wether statistics are giving us a true picture of a
crime.
how does the CSEW make their information more valid? - Answers✔they ask the population if
they have been a victim of a crime
What do criminologist say about statistics from police? - Answers✔they are reliable but they
they aren't valid
how do the home office collect crime data? - Answers✔the home office collect police recorded
crime to show the police activety every year. They are catagoriesed by location, offence type,
and time. They are always publicly accessible. These are likely to change t=year to year
depending on policy and to a much lesser extent the crime that is being commited.
what does CSEW stand for? - Answers✔Crime Survey for England and Wales
why is the CSEW important? - Answers✔It allows the governmentt to understand the true level
of crime. It also finds out about crimes that tend not to get reported or recorded by the police.
what does the CSEW show? - Answers✔it shows that 4 in 10 crimes aren't reported to the police.
It helps to understand all the other crimes taht aren't being reported. It recordes higher numbers
of crimes that police figures because it includes un reported crimes.
which crimes does the CSEW cover? - Answers✔it coveres nw and emerging crimes, fraud and
online crimes, and traditional crimes like theft and assualt. over the next few months it will also
include crimes related to Covid. The survey also prvides information on the nature of crimes, like
the time and location of crimes, characteristics of offenders, and the relationships between the
victima and offender.
what benefits come the CSEW cover of crimes? - Answers✔they allow crime reduction policies
to be focused in where they can make the most impact
what types of questions do the CSEW ask? - Answers✔the ask personal questions, like age,
employment status, or education , information about the perpertrators, if any personal property
was stolen or damaged and location of the incident.
what are the statistics that the CSEW collect used for? - Answers✔they are used to make
statistics on crime son different people.
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