Crime statistics
These are used as a basis for developing and evaluating policy.
What are crime statistics?
This consists of information elicited through interviews with members of randomly selected households
What are victimization surveys?
This is credited for the exploration and description of criminal subcultures.
What is qualitative criminology?
This allows coders to have numerous options for tagging data (language) for search and retrieval.
What are advancements in qualitative analysis software?
Investigators ground this in emergent data and reconstruct this during a single study.
What is theory?
This includes type of violation, target of violation, types of property stolen, dollar value of property affected, weapon present, time and location.
What is the Uniform Crime Reporting system?
These uncover a large number of crimes not reported.
What are victimization surveys?
This was an integral part of criminology in the 1920s and 1930s.
What are oral history methods?
This can now more effectively manage complex codes for hundreds of in-depth interviews
What is qualitative analysis software.
This argues that understandings of “crime” and “criminals” emerge through socialization and by drawing on shared knowledge.
What is Phenomenology?
This includes Criminal Code offences but excludes traffic violations.
What is the calculated crime rate used in the UCR?
This is related to the ability of respondent to recall details of incidents.
What is a shortcoming of victimization surveys?
He went to parts of the city elites avoided to shed light on the thought and behavior of London poor.
Who is Mayhew? (Henry Mayhew)
This recruits research contacts who are paid and interviewed.
What is respondent-driven sampling?
This argues crime is viewed as an organizing concept that emerges through social interactions that produce a sense of order within the world of everyday life
What is ethnomethodology?
This assigns a weight to each offence derived from actual sentences handed down by courts.
What is the crime severity index?
These help provide a clearer and more complete picture of crime and who commits it.
What are self-report surveys?
His photos provided a portrait of poverty and reflected the social activist orientation characteristic of early criminology.
Who is Riis? (Jacob Riis)
This relies on participant observation and interaction with active criminal offenders.
What is practicing in the naturalistic tradition?
This argues that accounts about crime serve as data, regardless if the stories objectively are true.
What is narrative criminology?
This refers to unreported and under-reported criminal activity.
What is the dark figure of crime?
This is a result of respondent's concern over confidentiality and anonymity.
What is a shortcoming of self-report surveys?
This was interested in relationship between spatial and social organization and crime.
What is the Chicago School of Criminology?
This will continue to rely on memory and post-setting field notes.
What is the naturalistic tradition?
These tended not to concentrate regretfully on where they had been and the disadvantages it wrought, but to be forward looking in their intent to live right.
Who are "desisters?" (former criminals)