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Outline and assess the importance of victim surveys for the sociological understanding of crime and deviance Understanding of crime and deviance is strongly influenced by the ideological perspective used to quantify it. From a Marxist perspective crime is the natural outgrowth of capitalist society. The capitalist system emphasises the maximisation of profits and the accumulation of wealth, however the biases of the same system mean that some individuals are not able to achieve these ends without turning to a life of crime. Arguably victim surveys assess and document crime without subjecting the biases of official statistics which favour the bourgeoisie and marginalise the working classes. Similarly, from a feminist perspective official statistics present nothing more than a patriarchal social construction and women are consistently under estimated both as victims and perpetrators of crime. In 1983 the Home Office research and planning department published the first British crime surveys in an attempt to...

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