Methods in Context: Crime and Official Statistics
While the validity of Official Crime Statistics has long been questioned, their reliability has tended to be assumed. Recent pronouncements by the ONS, however, suggest that students should look at the reliability of crime statistics more critically…
Psychology: Reliability and Validity
Reliability and validity are two important methodological concepts in both Psychology and Sociology because they address the problems involved in “doing research” – and while this film is aimed at A-level and AP psychology students (who are required to cover the issues in much greater depth), it should also be useful for sociology teachers who […]
Crime Statistics: The Dark Figure video
A request from an American University to use this video in an online course prompted me to remember its existence on my YouTube Channel. It’s a short video that looks at the “dark figure” of crime – crimes that are committed in our society but which never appear in the official recorded crime statistics. As such […]
Letting Children Be Children: The Bailey Report
The Bailey Report (Letting Children Be Children, 2011) is an “Independent Review of the Commercialisation and Sexualisation of Childhood” that highlights a range of issues (and moral concerns bordering on panics) around families, children, childhood and the media. These, if you’re so inclined, can be used as the basis for interesting discussions around both contemporary […]