SOC209H5 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Toronto Police Service, Main Source, General Social Survey
25 Oct 2018
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Epistemology - building an understanding of what we know Commit act or behaviour where a prohibition was been codified. A statistical picture of crime can be a powerful tool for creating social policy. Officials rely on crime data to do the following: Analyze and evaluate programs and crime-control techniques. Annual operating budget for toronto police services - 1 billion. Motives of individuals collecting the data - analysis. Public opinion of crime is greatly influenced by the media and can cause a public demand for get tough crime policies. The # of incidents known to the police expressed in terms of the # of people in the population. = 1190 violent crimes per 100, 000 people. Allows us to put raw number into context, important for comparative purposes. Toronto has a huge population, there will be higher crime rates vs. a small town. Places like regina have much larger shooting rates than toronto.
