describe and evaluate three aproahces to f

Interactionist view

The interactionist view shows that moral entrepreneurs identify crime and that criminal labels are life–changing events. The Interactionist view is the central point between consensus and conflict approaches. This view accentuates that there are no complete values of  official crime statistics give one important source of information on recorded crime but these drastically overestimate the amount of crime because many crimes go unreported. There are many reasons for this. People may believe the offence too minor; they may distrust that the police can do anything about it; they might favour to deal with the issue personally or not recognise the act to be criminal. Many crimes such as vandalism and tax fraud have no victim to report them. However other crimes such as drug dealing and soliciting have prepared victims who are reported they do not essentially be recorded by the police, who may believe them to be to inconsequential to warrant intervention.

As well as this, several crimes are more possible to be reported than other; in general it is the more severe crimes that are reported but there are other contemplations. For instance, car theft is much more frequently reported than theft of other considerations. Such as, car theft is much more often reported than theft of other property, because of insurance insinuations. Development in the meticulous crimes reported may differ over time. Rape, for instance, is more expected to be reported now than it once was because of the change in attitudes of both the police and public to victims of sexual offence. Therefore statistics for rape have shown a moderately large increase, not all of which essentially reflects an increase in actual rape. It is significant to note that although the fact these crime figures should be treated with concern, they act as the key picture of crime used in deliberate preparation by home office and police forces.

How has crime rate changed in Great Britain since 1876 up until now?

There was a steady correlation and no change in the figures from 1876 up until 1924. But then according to the British crime report presented by the police the figures showed a rise of 65%. Even these figures have risen it is not entirely accurate. The report only shows those crimes which have been reported, some crimes do not get reported, and therefore cannot be filed.

Reasons why official crime statistics underestimate the amount of crime.

The official crime statistics underestimate the amount of crime because many crimes do not get reported. For example sexual assaults as the victims might find it embarrassing. Or even drug related crimes which involve gangs, there might have been threatened and eventually killed. In some cases the victims might think of the crime as trivial and feel they can deal with it them selves.  At times police themselves feel some crimes are too trivial in order to report them such as minor domestic arguments. The British Crime surveyors never cover all the crimes. Such as murders as a dead person cannot report what had happened to them.

2000 British crime survey

The 2000 British crime survey shows the figures to have fallen by 10%. The figures at 1995 were at its highest ever at 4000 incidents, at 2000 the figures had fallen to approximately 3200 incidents. It showed robbery and theft to have risen.

 Attempted thefts accounted for just over a quarter (27%) of all vehicle-related thefts in 1999, whereas in 1981 they were a much minor proportion (10%). This may point out that cars are becoming considerable more difficult to get into.

In 52% of incidents there was some type of injury. Injuries were most common in domestic violence (70%); least common (29%) for mugging. The most common form of injury was minor bruising or a black eye (33%) pursued by severe bruising (16%). For domestic violence these percentages were 44% and 29% in that order.