SOCI 327 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Motor Vehicle Theft, Technological Change, Homicide
4 Mar 2016
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We need to be able to measure crime accurately. We also need to measure the fear of crime. Fear of crime is measured by feelings of satisfaction with personal safety from crime and by a person"s fears about being a victim. In 2010, there were about 2. 1 million crimes reported to police (a decrease of. The severity of crime has decreased commensurately (csi) According to godd, 21% of crimes were considered violent while 79% were deemed non-violent We"ve only had crime data since 1962, we began measuring bc the argument was that crime was going up since the 40s (ww1), In 2010, there were just over 437,000 violent criminal code violations. The reduction of 7,217 since 2009 can be explained by a reductoin in attempted murder (-14%), homicide (-9%), robbery (-6%), and serious assaults (-5%). Property crimes are commited with the intent to acquire property without violence of threat of violence. (-5%).
