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. ... This classification can then allow for quantifying the data, which in turn sets the base for the use of statistical data. ... Similarly, many theoretical examinations of crime and deviance have...

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It is clear that social movements engage in politics due to the fact often social movements will scrutinize and challenge Governments which are legislators. Social movements will engage in activities such as protests (violent and non-violent) with the aim to influence the policies that governments make so that they will favour the aims of the social movements (Andrew Heywood, 1997:310). History shows us that social movements with greater numbers tend to have a greater effect on governments and politics, there are many examples such as the Civil rights movements and the Suffragettes. ... An ex...

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The difference between these two scholars lies in the way they view Hobbes' sovereign as either a state of continuous war, or a state in which laws are set in place to decrease the level of competitiveness between its citizens. In Macpherson's article he is a believer that this sort of government based upon individualistic ideals leads to a state without governance that is in a perpetual state of war, as they would be in the state of nature, the rules have just changed slightly. ...

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There is often an opposition between those who riot and those who oppose the rioters, between the establishment (represented by the government, the police) and those who protest against it. ... In the political discourse on both sets of riots, it was young, black males who formed the centre of the reductive model of the protester. ...

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