CRM 1300 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Uniform Crime Reports, Data Element, Property Crime
22 Apr 2016
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Counting crime the truth, the media and the popular imagination. Theory and policy require statistics about the decisions of those who break the law; about the decisions of those who maintain it; and about what people think of all this. Best possible date should be used to make a set a claims however it can still be critiqued. Crime rate = amount of crime / population size x 100 000 = standard rate by 100 000. 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. Statistics ( ccjs) provide good national data on criminal justice inputs such as resources and expenditures; weaker data with respect to output such as incidents, arrests, charges, convictions and dispositions.
