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Constructionist Perspectives On The Socially Constructed Nature Of Crime

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Constructionist perspectives emphasize the socially constructed nature of crime and the idea “that we cannot fully understand crime and its causes and consequences unless we also accept that the identification, coding, and counting of crime” (Modern and Payls, 2015,77) are built on the basis of interactions among people. In addition, constructionists suggest that crime statistics like the UCR is considered more of measuring police activity and how many crimes the police detects rather than the amount of crime reported to

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