CRCJ 1000 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: General Social Survey, Uniform Crime Reports
27 Feb 2018
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The construction of official statistics: victimization surveys. Self-report surveys: the most accurate according to criminology. Limitations: limited set of offences, underreporting. Ignorance: forgetting, telescoping, survey conditions, experience vs. incidents. 1 in 4 canadians (aged 15+) victimized per year. 70% = non-violent crime: the construction of official statistics. *** why might a person not report a crime to the police? (***potential midterm question?) Low medium: consensual infractions, assaults, thefts. Institutional discretion: policies (e. g. zero tolerance, distribution patrols. Operational discretion: conceptions police work, views on the crime", factors related to the suspect, police-reported crimes. Ucr = uniform crime report (1962: financial needs, political needs, situational factors, systemic factors. Incident based: expressed as rates /100,000, only remembers the most serious offence (i. e. armed robbery + drug possession = only remembers armed robbery as it is more serious)
