CRCJ 1000 Lecture Notes - General Social Survey, Longitudinal Study, Youth System
Document Summary
Most accurate to establish trends in crime over time. Tools to estimate the dark figure of crime: estimate the amount of crime that could exist in society but could escape the official crime rate. Icvs: international established in 1989 with the ambition to establish a comparison in between countries. There"s a general decline of victimization since the 1990s, interesting because crime rates in different nations do not show the same pattern. Icvs managed to establish a very low reliability of crime rates. Assumed that crime is under reported with these surveys, only surveys people who have a household and have a phone example: homeless people in the street will not be surveyed and are more likely to be victimized. Telescoping: placing the occurrence of the incident within the timeline of when it is being surveyed when it happened before hand. All sorts of factors that limit the validity.