SOCI 250 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Corporate Crime, Shoplifting, Sampling Error
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Of cial sources of crime data: 3 ps police, prosecution, prison, standardized, public, annual. Unof cial sources of crime data: victimization surveys, self-report data, other organizations, observational methods. Of cial crime criminal events that have been detected, reported, and recorded in some of cial fashion (ex. police data, prison data) Actual crime all crimes that occur but are not necessarily detected, reported, or processed by cjs. Dark gure criminal events that go undetected and/or underreported by of cial cjs agencies. Most frequently used form of of cial crime data. Based on criminal events known to police. Uniform crime reports (ucr) standardized survey used by all police departments across canada. To describe trends and patterns: conviction rates, median length of sentences, differences in gender, time, place, resources. Canadian incarceration rates increasing moving toward a more punitive and more expensive correctional system http://www. prisonstudies. org/ Of cial data underestimates the amount of criminal behaviour. Of cial data changes over time due to external forces.
