.since 1990's the number of crime has been  more or less the same

.  this is higher than the 1980's  due to the increase of mobile phones , the increase of valuable goods

 . People no-longer torelate with crime

.  The reports of incidents  of theft, rape has doubled  between 1991-2001

.  New crimes and opportunity

Ask people if they have committed crime over the past few year

. They are normally questionnaires or Interviews

. SRF show that everyone committe crime sometime in our life

. If crime is  seen as normal , it is hard to define a criminal with different social characteristics  .e.g. age, gender, class, ethinicity

Gender And Self Report Studies

.Males more than females are law breakers

.  This is the same as official statisics made by the police

. Show that the lower the class the  more likely you will commit crime

. Street crime are the strongest link

 These are crimes that are dealt with the most by the  police

. Other crimes such as domestic violence, fraud, child abuse are less likely to be dealth with

.SRF and official statistics show that C&D is the thing for young people

. crime typically made by young groups is  more lilkey to be things such as car theft.

 .There is a little diffrence between  Blacks and white  in the SRF

 But offical statistics show that back people commit more crime

crime trend only focus on working class males and streetcrime

. hidden crime are usually not included

.Fraud comitted by middle class is

ingored

.This shows that SRS only  focus towrds one view