CRIM 101 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Motor Vehicle Theft, Culpable Homicide, Serial Killer
19 Apr 2016
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In canada, crime rates increase as you go west and north. Larger communities tend to have higher crime rates. Ucr categorises: vilent, property, other, traffic offences, federal drug legislation, other federal status offences. Three categories: violent crime, property crime, crimes against the public order. The ucrs other criminal code incidents contains some of the crimes against the public order; catch-all category classified. Victim responses to crime: when crime rates are rising, victims might take self-protective measure, if theyre down, they wont. Societal response to crime: tolerance for certain acts. Other factors: age gender, level of income, population density. Homicide: murder, manslaughter, infanticide, serial murder, mass murder. Sexual assault is assault committed in circumstances of sexual nature such that sexual integrity of the victim is violated: 1) touching, 2) weapon, 3) wound, mame, disfigure, endanger life of victim. Serial murder is culpable homicide that involved the killing of several victims in three or more separate events.
