CRIM 101 Lecture Notes - Lecture 13: General Social Survey, Sexual Assault, Peer Group

• School: Simon Fraser University
• Department: Criminology
• Course: CRIM 101
• Professor: Carlos Ponce

Document Summary

Key takeaways: violence can be classified into instrumental or expressive, depending on the motivation behind the aggression, expressive: associated with situations that frustrate offender, carry an emotional; component, and have as a sole purpose to hurt victims. Instrumental: calculated actions employed by offenders to accomplish an ulterior objective they are merely a mean to reach another goal: the mains sources of information to measure violence in canada are the general social survey and the. Uniform crime reports: not all violent incidents are reported to authorities, some have higher chance of being recorded, homicide is the most reliable indicator of interpersonal violence. However, there are differences in recording practices that may affect accuracy and reliability: violent crime shows downward trend in canada, violence is geographically and demographically concentrated. Instrumental calculated actions employed by offenders to accomplish an ulterior objective. They are merely a means to reach another goal. Canadian frontier phenomenon: criminal justice practices, historical culture of violence.