Have you done everything you can to achieve your target grade? How might you amend your revision strategy to achieve it?

Currently doing revision notes for all subjects and topics, and in the middle of Photography exam! so am trying very hard to make sure i get my target grade, i will continue making my revision notes, and then put them onto revision cards that condense the info down onto cards that i can expand on! :) In my mentor meeting we discussed doing more essay plans along with the revision notes because it is coming across in my essays that i know the details but my order isn't the best it could be, where as if i work on where to use evaluation and what should go first etc then my essays will be stronger and i will be able to achieve my target grade in most essays! My next task at the moment is to continue working through my crime and deviance notes as well as the psychology notes that i am working on. Busy busy busy :)

How useful are self-report and victimisation studies to sociologists?

Victimization studies help sociologists find out who is targeted the most, and what sort of crimes they are likely to be a victim of. This can then help to make it less easy for these crimes to be committed and local authorities will be more aware of the crimes that are affecting more and more people. however problems with victimization studies are the validity of what people are saying happened, they could be bias, or be telling a lie to make it seem worse than it is.
Self -Report studies are useful for sociologists because it lets them know which social groups are the most likely to commit crimes and of what sort of crime they commit. People will admit to crimes that aren't major or harmful to others. If they have not yet been caught for a crime they are unlikely to admit to it for fear of being caught, also if people have committed a crime and do admit to it they may over exaggerate to make it seem more dramatic ( makes them feel important). Validity problems - are they telling a real account of what happened?