CRM 100 Lecture 2: CRM100LECTURE2-2
12 Feb 2017
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Top down or bottom up rule making and rule enforcing. Why the answers to these questions affects how people explain the causes of crime. We use a legalistic view of crime. If we wanted to include non legally defined crimes, we have to go outside of the spectrum collected data. Choosing what to count (people who are arrested or just the individuals who were convicted?) Choosing what not to count: race and the politics of statistics (we don"t think race causes criminal behavior we don"t want to use that as a criminogenic factor it could lead to individuals acting racist) Different information that is needed, different information collected/counted. If police get a phone call for a false alarm. Trying to determine the amount of crime in the community, figuring out how many ties the police get called would not help because not every police call ends in an illegal act with a charged individual.
