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Official data on crime and criminals should be considered as 'social constructs'. explain and discuss.
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Official data on crime and criminals should be considered as 'social constructs'. explain and discuss. In this essay I will be looking at the official data namely the British crime survey it's negative and positive points and the affects these have. Official crime statistics are the total number of crimes recorded by the police. These form the backbone of Functionalist theory on crime and it is also used to form much social policy. Official crime statistics should not be accepted as closer analysis finds that they can be unreliable. Giddens described them as: "...probably the least reliable of all official figures on social issues." But official crime statistics do have many strong points. Official crime statistics are often the only data available on crime. It is virtually impossible for any sociologist to get a full representative picture on crime for the whole country but official crime statistics allow a snap shot of...
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