SOC209H5 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: General Social Survey, Uniform Crime Reports
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Lecture #4 representations of law and crime. Problems with understanding crime: hidden, subject of inquiry is deliberately hidden. 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 center for justice statistics. Dark figure of crime: the dark figure of crime is the difference between how much crime occurs and how much crime is reported or discovered by the police (the unknown amount of crime) Self-report surveys: asks people about the crimes they have committed, measure attitudes and prevalence of offending (primary perps being young men) Indicate that many cities are not reported: asks victims about crimes they did not report, canadian urban victimization survey, the general social survey, direct measures, economic loss, physical injury, property damage. Indirect measures: fear of crime and its effects, anxiety, behavioural change.
