CRCJ 1000 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Cognitive Disorder, Etiology, Adolphe Quetelet

• School: Carleton University
• Department: Criminology and Criminal Justice
• Course: CRCJ 1000
• Professor: Nicolas Carrier

Document Summary

Reaction to making of law, breaking of law, reaction to the breaking of law. Epidemiology= study of incidence and distribution of crime. To help locate high crime areas and patterns. They wanted to study crime the same way to study science. Predictive policing: using maps to carefully predict where it is most likely that crime will occur. Official crime data: officialised by the police, using police data (ex: news report saying crime declined, with data from the police). Self-reported surveys: to ask people if they committed any crime in a survey. Powerfully used to demonstrate that law enforcement is selective, therefore official crime data is what police deem more important rather than a report of crime. Victimization surveys: to ask people if they have been a victim of crime in a survey. Mobilized to grasp the dark figure in crime. Crimes that go unreported are often found in these surveys.