CRM 3312 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Murder Of James Bulger, Assault, Common Assault
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They were sentenced to 8 years in juvenile detention, and then released to a lifelong sentence: this was like a form of probation that they would have to be on for the rest of their. The judge also wanted the names of the boys to be released. When the boys were released, they had to be put in a witness protection styled program. Police statistics (ucr): established in 1962, crime gets reported when police become aware that it is occurring/has occurred: The crime has been detected and found. The crime has been reported (reliance on the public to notify the police): it measures the seriousness off the crime and counts the amount of incidents, the severity of youth crime has been on a steady decline. Problems: it doesn"t address the dark figure of crime; crime that is not detected or reported.