CRIM 101 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Victimology, General Social Survey, Guard Dog

• School: Simon Fraser University
• Department: Criminology
• Course: CRIM 101
• Professor: Barry Cartwright

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Researching crime: direct observation in natural settings (ethnographic research, experimental observations, police reports, victimization surveys, self-report surveys. Direct observation: not necessarily the most efficient way to study crime, criminal events occur with relative infrequency, criminals spend a lot of their time doing same things as non criminal. Issues of (cid:862)i(cid:374)for(cid:373)ed (cid:272)o(cid:374)se(cid:374)t(cid:863) (cid:894)if (cid:455)ou tell the su(cid:271)je(cid:272)ts (cid:449)hat (cid:455)ou"re goi(cid:374)g to do, the(cid:455) (cid:373)a(cid:455) refuse, or alter behaviour) If you"re encourage subjects to break the law, you may be breaking the law yourself. The uniform crime report: (cid:862)i(cid:374) ca(cid:374)ada, poli(cid:272)e re(cid:272)orded (cid:272)ri(cid:373)e statisti(cid:272)s ha(cid:448)e been collected and published since (cid:1005)9(cid:1006)(cid:1005)(cid:863) In 1962, canada implemented the uniform crime report (ucr: most common data used by criminologists and criminal justice personnel when estimating crime rates. Canada), two thirds of crimes are not reported to the police: uggests that data (cid:272)olle(cid:272)ted (cid:271)(cid:455) the ucr are (cid:862)erro(cid:374)eous a(cid:374)d i(cid:374)(cid:272)o(cid:373)plete(cid:863) General social survey: surveyed 19,500 households across canada in 2009; surveyed 24,000 households in.