Social Problems
normally. This approach considers the complex realities surrounding the concept
of crime and seeks to understand how changing social, political, psychological,
and economic conditions may affect the current definitions of crime and the
form of the legal, law enforcement, and penal responses made by society. These
structural realities remain fluid and often contentious. For example, as cultures
change and the political environment shifts, behavior may be criminalised or
decriminalised, which will directly affect the statistical crime rates, determine
the allocation of resources for the enforcement of such laws, and influence the
general public opinion. Similarly, changes in the way that crime data are
collected and/or calculated may affect the public perceptions of the extent of any
given "crime problem". All such adjustments to crime statistics, allied with the
experience of people in their everyday lives, shape attitudes on the extent to
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