CRCJ 1000 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Longitudinal Study, General Social Survey, Victimless Crime
10 Aug 2016
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More accurate than police reported data to understand trends and evolution in crime. Developed to estimate the dark figure of crime. Excludes corporate crimes, victimless crimes , crimes against business aren"t taken into account. Some people won"t report their crime on their surveys. Many people are excluded: incarcerated people, people with mental illness, homeless . Telescoping: to include in the study acts that occurred outside the time frame demanded. Covers limited set of crimes: sexual assault (8), robbery (4), physical assault (19) =violent crimes. Non-violent: break-ins (7), theft of motor vehicle (5), and theft of household property (13), theft of personal property (33) vandalism (11). 3/4 of them only happen once during the year. Chance of being violently victimized decreases with age. Attrition process: an act is being labelled as crime. For a crime to become a statistic, the offender must be found guilty in the court of law.
