CRIM 101 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: General Social Survey, Security Alarm, Victimology

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Measuring crime & victimology (week 4 january 24, 2017) Direct observation in natural settings (ethnographic research) Not necessarily the most efficient way to study crime. Criminals spend a lot of their time doing same things as non-criminals. Criminal behaviour tends to be secretive in nature. Criminals go out of their way to avoid observation or detection. Information about criminal subcultures that are not usually amenable to investigation. Issues of informed consent (if you tell the subject what you"re going to do, they may refuse, or alter their behaviour) If you encourage subjects to break the law, you may be breaking the law yourself. In canada, police-recorded crime statistics have been collected and published since. In 1962, canada implemented the uniform crime report. Most common data used by criminologists and criminal justice personnel when estimating crime rates. Introduced of ucr in 1962 was intended to standardize the collection and assembly of police-reported crime statistics from across canada.

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