SOC201 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Mobile Phone, Census Geographic Units Of Canada, Sampling Frame
12 Apr 2018
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Soc 201 - lecture 3 - measuring crime and victimization in canada. Measuring police-reported crime two ways: traditional crime rate and crime severity index (csi) Both take into account volume of police-reported crime, both measure crime based on most serious violation in the criminal incident. Crime rate traditional crime rate = used to measure police-reported crime in canada since 1962. Generally expressed as rate per 100,000 population. Calculated by summing all criminal code incidents reported by police and dividing by population. Developed to address limitation of police-reported crime rate driven by high-volume. Calculation: each violation assigned a weight takes into account volume of crime as well as seriousness. Weights based on violation"s incarceration rate and average length of prison sentence by criminal courts. More serious the average sentence = more serious offences have greater impact on the index. Weighten offences are summed then divided by popluation standardized to a base year of 100 (base year in csi is 2006)
