I will be operating under the theoretical frameworks of several writers and scholars, as the information provided through their books and scholastic journals will help elucidate the topics I have chosen to focus on. ... This created a shift in the social culture of today's generation, as people are more inclined to get their information from different sources of media (such as the news or the internet), as opposed to consulting with a person or a book about it. ... Indeed, contributors with deep pockets from the private sector is not unheard of in the capitalistic nations of the first wo...

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Official statistics are one of the many secondary sources of retrieving data and it can simply be defined as information collected from the general public by government agencies or private organizations, usually through a census or a survey- statistical data rounded in official statistics are mainly used for the study of demography, inflation, crime and deviance, unemployment, poverty and suicide. ... Another limitation of official statistics is that it may not suit the sociologist in his type of study and it also deters the sociologist from acquiring in-depth information. ... The latter, ho...

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Victimology refers to the scientific study of the "extent, nature and causes of criminal victimisation, it's consequences for the persons involved and the reactions thereto by society". (World Society of Victimology, cited in Goodey 2005, pp.10) Various perspectives of victimology have been put forward since the mid-twentieth century when it first emerged. The main perspectives include; feminist victimology, positivist victimology, radical victimology, and critical victimology. Each of these perspectives offer different theories of victims and crime, some more controversial ...

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