CRIM 131 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: First Nations, Visible Minority
17 Mar 2018
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Chart 1: police- reported crime rate, canada, 1962 to 2013. Chart1: police-reported crime severity indexes, 1998 to 2016. High rates of crime and victimization, and over-representation of aboriginal. Particular acute north of 60, where crime rates are 5x higher than for canad. Added expenditures for closed-circuit television, locks, technology, private se. >third party riginal ppl in all stages of the cjs. Single women more likely victims of violence than married women. Aboriginal women 3x more likely to report spousal abuse. Greater in areas where there is a higher proportion of low income families, vi parent families. Residents who identify social disorder in their neighborhoods also report hig. Citizens 65 and older tend to be ore fearful of crime, as those persons who. Role of victim is set out in federal and provincial legislation. Typically, notifying victims if the offender is being released. Critiques: psychological harm not adequately addressed, too much emphasi.
