A research team tracks burglary in a county over five years. It obtains annual conviction totals from court records. Each year, the team also interviews a sample of householders about burglaries they have experienced during the previous 12 months. Both sets of results show that burglary has declined.
Using the source, explain how official statistics and self-report have been used, and why the researchers can be more confident that burglary has declined.
41 exam-style questions on OCR GCSE Psychology 1.1 Key Concepts, covering 1.1.1 Types of crime, 1.1.2 Crime as a social construct, and 1.1.3 How crime is measured. Each one has a worked solution and a mark scheme showing where the marks go.