CRM 100 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Uniform Crime Reports, Clearance Rate, Nimby
11 Dec 2017
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The number of incidents known to the police expressed in terms of the number of people in the population. Police reported crime rates have declined and are at their lowest level since. Property crimes are the third important trend, they have been decreasing in. Police reported youth crimes has also declined in recent years. The difference between how much crime occurs and how much crime is reported to or discovered by the police. Actual crime, the actual amount of crime that is occurring in society, would be seen as the dark figure. Detected crime, crime that is actually discovered or detected by the police, less then 5% are actually discovered by police. Reported crime, large amount of crime that is reported by citizens to the police. People are reporting less, half the incidents are not reported to the police. The annual costs of the criminal justice system is billion.
