ENGL210I Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Montesquieu, Human Behavior, Anti-Social Behaviour
1 Oct 2013
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Homicide survey: collects data on homicides, emphasis on offender, collected by police and courts who mandate is about prosecution not about victims, some information on victims. Non government studies: conducted by university researchers, can be obtrusive or non-obtrusive, private organizations and research companies, local organizations. Care in interpretation: uniform crime report, fbi 2011, looks at: How cases are cleared (either arrest or exceptional circumstances: sometimes the exceptional circumstances can be related in some ways to issues relating to the victim. Case clearance by exceptional circumstances: circumstances such as: The victim refuses to participate in the judicial process after the offender has been identified. The offender has been extradition has either forced the offender to be sent to another jurisdiction or is forced to leave. The offender has committed another crime for which he/she is being prosecuted. Ucr clearance rates, fbi 2011: murder and non-negligent manslaughter.
