CRCJ 1000 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Uniform Crime Reports, Qualitative Property, British Association For Immediate Care
25 Jun 2016
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More interested in individual as suppose to the group. Interested in what we see when we combine. Use the criminal to measure what is crime. It is not the ideal way, but it"s a effective way. How do we capture all crimes that take places. Sent it to the canadian center of center static. Every cities sent it to stat can and canadian centre for justice statistics (ccjs) Murder has a good report rate, but sexual assault, drug use is low. Seriousness rule" - only the most severe offence. Only measure the most serious event when there are a series of crime. Reports crimes that do not lead to conviction. Capturing more of crime happening than the conviction rate. The crime severity index was created it 2009. Brings down crime rate by only picking the most serious. Look like they are much more serious than they actually are.
