SOC 1500 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Official Statistics, Domestic Violence, Nimby

• School: University of Guelph
• Department: Sociology
• Course: SOC 1500
• Professor: Graham Brown

Document Summary

Chapter 3 crime, victims, and the community. Crime rate the number of incidents known to the police expressed in terms of the number of people in the population. Dark figure of crime the difference between how much crime occurs and how much crime is reported to or discovered by the police. The police-reported crime rate has declined and is at its lowest level since. The crime severity index, which includes the volume and seriousness of police-reported crime, has declined over the past decade. The rates of crime are highest in the territories and in the western regions of the country. Violent crime continues to decline, although the rates remain high in the territories and in selected western cities, including winnipeg and saskatoon, and in thunder bay. Property crimes have generally declined over the past decade. Police-reported youth crime has declined in recent years. Studies of victimization, most often involving self-reported surveys, indicate the following.