CRCJ 1000 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: General Social Survey, Uniform Crime Reports, Microsoft Powerpoint
17 Apr 2016
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Counting crime criminology lecture week 4: september 24th. Victimization surveys: estimating the dark figure of crime. A more accurate representation of what is going on then with official stats because it doesn"t depend on what the police say, know, or find out. Dark figure of crime: all the crime that is not known by police officers. Limited set of offences (does not cover the entire criminal code of offences) 1 in 4 canadians (aged 15 years and older) victimized per year which 70% were non-violent crimes. 30% of all crimes in canada get reported. Policies (e. g. zero tolerance) want to react to concerns that are expressed by citizens. Conceptions police work (how police think about their work) Factors related to the subject (first time, social class, gender, mental state, relational distance etc. ) Ucr uniform crime report (1962: incident-based, expressed as rates/100,000. Csi crime severity index (2009: weight = incarceration rate x duration sentence, 2006 as base year (value = 100)
