CRIM 131 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Robert Pickton, Crime Prevention, Homicide

• School: Simon Fraser University
• Department: Criminology
• Course: CRIM 131
• Professor: Sheri Fabian

Document Summary

Crime trends and the impact of the charter and the media in cj. Media inluences in cjs and on public opinion. Based on police reporing pracices, compiled by staisics canada. Crime severity index - each crime is assigned a weight. -gives understanding the level of violent crimes. *****dark figure of crime******-discrepency between actual amount of crime and the reported amount of crime (we know tehres a large amount of crime that doesn"t get reported) Smaller proporion of 15-24 yr olds (fewer crimes and severe crimes commited by 15-24yr olds) There are certain very large proporions of crime ie. vancouver 4% (property crime) Higher rates in the north (crime rates increase as we go from east to west) Bc the populaion rate is so small there, one or 2 incidents could make a big diference as a percentage rate. This gives impression that theres a lot more crime in the north but not necessarily true.