Sociology Of Crime And Deviance
The Sociology of Crime and Deviance in Britain
Throughout this assignment, there will be discussion with reference to the role of the police, the usefulness of the official statistics. There will also be theoretical views included of the usefulness of the official statistics including, Marxism, interactionism, feminism, left realism and functionalism.
The role of the police is to enforce the law by prosecuting the public and catching criminal. They are the main agency responsible for the enforcement of social control. Although there have been considerable changes in the style of policing whereas years ago there would be police on the beat this has been replaced by officers in cars who respond to reports of incidents. Neighbourhood …show more content…
They believe that the crime statistics are a social construction meaning they are the end product of a complex and highly selective process involving the interaction between several groups. These groups would be known to be that of the general public, victims of crime, mass media, police officers, magistrate and judges and the ruling class. And going back to what was mentioned earlier a victim of an assault firstly has to decide whether or not to report the incident to the police. It is believed that male victims of urban areas tend not to report assault to the police. Leaving the official crime statistics, having more knowledge about groups rather than the actual crimes committed and criminality according to research done by Winlow and Hall (2006). According to Herbert Blumer (1969) interactionism is based on three central views which can relate to those above and fall well under the interctionist approach which believes gone are the social systems and social structures which direct behaviour and in replace of this are small scale interaction situations in which people act in terms of meanings and definitions of the situation. The interactionist approach to crime and deviance became popular in the 1960s (Sociology in …show more content…
However, without these official crime statistics we would not be able to measure the extent of crime and offenders. There are many different theories towards the role of the police and official crime statistics which we need to be taking into consideration while reflecting on the statistics. However to get an overall view to the reasoning behind crime and deviance we have to consider all factors to get the best explanation to be able to move forward with resolutions to talking crime and deviance in our
Throughout this assignment, there will be discussion with reference to the role of the police, the usefulness of the official statistics. There will also be theoretical views included of the usefulness of the official statistics including, Marxism, interactionism, feminism, left realism and functionalism.
The role of the police is to enforce the law by prosecuting the public and catching criminal. They are the main agency responsible for the enforcement of social control. Although there have been considerable changes in the style of policing whereas years ago there would be police on the beat this has been replaced by officers in cars who respond to reports of incidents. Neighbourhood …show more content…
They believe that the crime statistics are a social construction meaning they are the end product of a complex and highly selective process involving the interaction between several groups. These groups would be known to be that of the general public, victims of crime, mass media, police officers, magistrate and judges and the ruling class. And going back to what was mentioned earlier a victim of an assault firstly has to decide whether or not to report the incident to the police. It is believed that male victims of urban areas tend not to report assault to the police. Leaving the official crime statistics, having more knowledge about groups rather than the actual crimes committed and criminality according to research done by Winlow and Hall (2006). According to Herbert Blumer (1969) interactionism is based on three central views which can relate to those above and fall well under the interctionist approach which believes gone are the social systems and social structures which direct behaviour and in replace of this are small scale interaction situations in which people act in terms of meanings and definitions of the situation. The interactionist approach to crime and deviance became popular in the 1960s (Sociology in …show more content…
However, without these official crime statistics we would not be able to measure the extent of crime and offenders. There are many different theories towards the role of the police and official crime statistics which we need to be taking into consideration while reflecting on the statistics. However to get an overall view to the reasoning behind crime and deviance we have to consider all factors to get the best explanation to be able to move forward with resolutions to talking crime and deviance in our