CRM 101 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Populism, Homicide, Marital Rape
10 Feb 2017
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Chapter 3: the nature and extent of crime. Are collected by the canadian centre for justice statistics (raw data) Every month police of cers report incidents of crimes known to them. Crimes reported to police and founded crimes. Ucr2: 1984, gives more info on crime (characteristics, offender and victims) gives context (location, relationships) not a full police report though. Incident based data: allows more speci c sense of how and why offences occur. Percentage change: amount of crime between years (sees if area is becoming more or less dangerous) Crime rate: dividing total crimes by population, ex for every 100,000 people in area, 9000 will be robbed. Attrition the number of cases investigated by police that result in a conviction is a small percentage of the total (decreases as gone through the criminal justice system) People wont always report. (stolen cars are usually reported, not bikes or phones though)
