Which term captures differences in how society responds to crime?

• A. Levels of response
• B. Public perception
• C. Unrecorded crime
• D. Media representation

Answer: (A)

The question is about how society reacts to crime in different ways. The best term is levels of response because it focuses on the range of reactions across society—from informal community actions to formal police, courts, and sanctions, as well as rehabilitation or restorative approaches. It captures how responses vary depending on the crime, the context, and the resources available.

Public perception refers to what people think, unrecorded crime to crimes not captured in official data, and media representation to how crime is portrayed in the press. While those concepts influence or reflect reactions, they don’t directly name the varying ways society actually responds across different situations as explicitly as levels of response.