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1
Q

Why are cities more likely to have higher rates of crime?

Give at least one example.

A

At least one from:

  • They have a bigger population which means that there is often more opportunity for crime to be committed.
  • There is often a bigger divide between the rich and the poor.
2
Q

Complete the following sentence(s):

Official _______ show that recorded crime is not evenly _____ between _____l areas. 1999 Youth Lifestyles Survey revealed a ______ between the type of area lived in and persistent offending. _____ the proportion of men living in inner cities were ________ offenders as those in rural areas. Location studies show a much higher risk of crime against businesses in disadvantaged areas.

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  • Statistics
  • Distributed
  • Geographical
  • Relationship
  • Twice
  • Persistent
3
Q

Complete the following sentence:

The British Crime Survey and _____ records of crime show that rural areas compared to urban areas: have ______ rates of all types of crime, have a lower proportion of people with high levels of worry about crime and have lower levels of perceptions by people of high levels of anti-social ______. People in rural areas are not as worried as those in urban areas about the likelihood of crimes such as ________ to occur.

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  • Police
  • Lower
  • Behaviour
  • Vandalism
4
Q

What are the two main branches of environmental criminology?

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  • Looking at how and where people live effects their behaviour.
  • Examining why offences occur in certain areas e.g. ‘hot spots’.
5
Q

What are the limitations of official crime statistics?

Give at least one example.

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At least one from:

  • What about the ‘dark figure’ of crime? Unreported and undiscovered crimes.
  • Maguire (2002) estimates that only a small percentage of all crime in England and Wales ends in conviction and that theories relating to official statistics must be treated with caution.