SSCI1000U Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Motor Vehicle Theft, Property Crime, Only Crime
10 Feb 2017
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2014- under 1. 8 million criminal code incidents reported to police. Volume of crime decreased 3% vs. 2013. 8 offences made up 81% of all crime. Crime severity index versus police reported crime rate. Crime rate: high volume, less serious offenses. Csi- measure severity- weights derived from sentences handed down. Leenaars and lester (2004): proportion of population 15-24 was most significant predictor of homicide. Shift in inflation- associated with shifts in financially motivated crime: financially motivated: September 29th, 2016: depends on crime data used. Questio(cid:374)s: resea(cid:396)ch has (cid:374)ot associated (cid:894)the(cid:396)e"s (cid:374)ot (cid:396)elatio(cid:374)ship(cid:895) i(cid:374)flatio(cid:374) (cid:449)ith (cid:396)ates of crime. Uniform crime reporting system (cid:862)what the poli(cid:272)e ay(cid:863) Classification of crimes through guidebook: uniform crime reporting manual, statistics canada/canadian association of chiefs of police. 1961-1988: police depts. forwarded information to statistics canada. First 27 years- ucr- reported on basis of aggregated statistics. Aggregate ucr survey: number of reported offenses, number of actual offenses, number of offenses cleared by charge, number of adults/youth charged.
