CRCJ 1000 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Illegal Entry, Compstat, Computer Network

• School: Carleton University
• Department: Criminology and Criminal Justice
• Course: CRCJ 1000
• Professor: Jeffrey Monaghan

Document Summary

Emergence of statistic knowledges; statistics and governance; official crime data; court statistics; Victimization and self-report surveys; victimology; statistics and media. Outline: statistics & governance, the data explosion, official crime data, understanding official crime data, limits of official crime stats, victimology, victimization surveys, gss, self-report surveys, limitations of victimization and self-report surveys. Approaching the study of statistics: statistics are not objective, statistics only have meaning when they are interpreted, statistics produce or "make up" social realities. Statistical organizations effectively produce such things as the suicide rate, and public opinion which do not exist otherwise. Crime stats are not independent truths, they are social constructions. We make boundaries and change them over time, which changes representations of statistics (ex. what is considered assault?: if you change the rules of measurements, you change the realities. Stats tell us about social world, but are not social reality: statistics & governance. Stats are at the core of debates. Police-reported crimes: ucr uniform crime report (1962)