SOC209H5 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Uniform Crime Reports, General Social Survey, Victims Family
Document Summary
Criminals have little insight into the broader nature of their behaviour. Much crime lies beyond the scope of research. Crime rates: the number of incidents known to the police expressed in terms of the number of people in the population, criminal incidents divided by the total population and multiplied by 100,000. The decline in reporting rates is most likely due to the decline in the number of males in the crime prone age (18-24) and the increasing use of technology for crime prevention. Victims report crimes less often: the crime is to petty to report. People do not want to complicate the process. Lack of faith in the justice system: custodial punishment- jail and penitentiary, non-custodial punishment community service, uniform crime reports. Statistics based on crime reports within the country. Standardized counts of crime known to police. Severity of crime has been going down over time.
