CRM 1300 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Hydroponics, Lowkey, Victimology
9 Nov 2016
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The truth, the media and the popular imagination. Validity: the extent to which a tool or instrument actually measures the concept a researcher claims to be interested in. Crime rate = amount of crime / population size x 100,000 = standard rate by 100,000: reliability: got to be different and reliable, validity: stable overtime and a good measure of a phenomenon. Need better measures: crime rate: be careful when comparing rates over differnet places. Administrative records can be compiled to form statistics: you must first decide upon your data elements; your levels of aggregation; and your counting procedures. Canadian criminal justice statistics compiled by the canadian center for justice. Because it tells us more and more about how the criminal justice system operates and what it considers to be important, rather than what people actually do out there in society. Assaults are not explained, why the offender offended. The money that is put in certain areas.
