CRIM 1125 Lecture Notes - General Social Survey, Shoplifting
Document Summary
Officail crime rates usually based on the uniform crime report(ucr) Criminologists also look at the general social survey(gss) Many incidents of crime go undetected or unreported and consequently do not make it into the ucr. Some incidents that are reported may not show up in the ucr because police conclude they are unfounded. Only one out of many offences reported. Victimization survey that interviews people by telephone(random digit dialing) in 2009 sampled over 19000 individuals over the age of 15 in households across canada. Respondents asked about their victimization experiences and their perceptions of crime and the criminal justice system the dark figure of crime. 3)didn"t think the police could do anything about it. 5)didn"t want the police involved some problems with the gss interviewers only those respondents who have a telephone. Marginalized people with no phone being excluded from the survey(may be the most highly victimized) Gss(household survey) misses crimes committed against businesses eg robberies shoplifting credit cards fraud.
