CRM 100 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Motor Vehicle Theft, General Social Survey, Main Source

• School: Ryerson University
• Department: Criminology
• Course: CRM 100
• Professor: Tammy Landau

Document Summary

Timeline: crime, victim recognition; witnesses, victim reporting, reported. Factors influencing official crime statistics: reporting to police-victims report a wide range of reasons for reporting or not reporting crimes and victimizations to the police: *see data from the 2009 general social survey (perrault and brennan, 2010): Reasons for not reporting victimization to the police: Very first stage in what gets reported to the police. 1999, 2004, 2009) a telephone survey covering the non-institutionalized population aged 15 years or more in 10 provinces. Households without telephones, households with only cellular phone service, and individuals living in institutions were excluded. this represents approximately 9% of the target population. data on reporting and non-reporting to police (presented above) are from the 2009. Additional methods of measuring victimization: hospital admissions, drinking and driving behaviour (testing blood, gunshots must be reported to the police, reports to social agencies (eg cas, children"s aid (data on suspected child abuse)