Gender and Crime - Trends in Offending & Victimisation | A Level Sociology

welcome to this Cher to you sociology topic video on gender and crime looking at Trends in offending and victimization when looking at Trends in offended and victimization there are several methods that can be used to assess the levels of criminality and we're going to use some of these in this video to explain differences between

male and female offending and victimization of course with crime there is often a dark figure of unreported crime so many use the crime survey of England and Wales to assess the level of crime this is a survey that is distributed to around 20,000 people annually and this year for the first time was partially

conducted by telephone due to restrictions surrounding covid-19 this is then applied to the wider population and for the year ending June 12th estimated the amount of crime in around 12 million incidents in contrast the recorded amount of crime by police was 5.8 million cases which demonstrates the differences between the estimated amounts of crime including the dark

figure of crime and those reported to and recorded by the police crime is also measured through self-report surveys with criminals asked to declare crimes that they have committed what is problematic with some forms of crime such as theft or property crime is that people may be unaware of who has committed the act and so often

self-report surveys are a good way of measuring the levels of crime between people of different social classes genders and ethnic groups in looking at violent crimes a soul actual body in looking at violent crimes such as assault actual bodily harm Grievous body harm Etc according to the crime survey of England Wales 81% of these