SOC209H5 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Uniform Crime Reports, General Social Survey, Hanwoo
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Official sources of crime statistics criminal justice agencies: crime rates the number of incidents known to the police expressed in terms of the number of people in the population. The top is the actual level of crime (volume of crime) and the bottom is the dark figure of crime (1) uniform crime reports: standardized counts of crime known to police, national statistics about crime, applies standard definitions to all offences, counts used to determine crime rates, the canadian centre for justice statistics, the ucr data reflect reported crime that has been substantiated by police. Unofficial sources (2) self report surveys surveys that are literally handed out, asking about peoples experiences in criminal activity: asks people about the crimes they have committed, identifies some unreported crimes (dark figure, measure attitudes and prevalence of offending (primary perps) (3) victimization surveys, asks victims about crimes they did not report, indicate that a large number of crimes are not reported, ex.
