SOC307H5 Lecture Notes - Victimless Crime, Burglary, Larceny
Document Summary
Canadian urban victimization surveys first conducted by solicitor general (with stat can) in 1982. Only major cities included in surveys toronto, montreal, winnipeg, vancouver, calgary. About 700,000 personal victimizations reported (robbery, assault), and more than 900,000 household victimizations reported (break and enter, theft) Asked business establishment 75% did not report. Fear of crime people don"t go out this increases the rate of crime. 20% of ppl considered moving to another neighbourhood. Specific crimes measured parallel or are roughly the same as the indexes crime of the ucr. Limited range of criminal offences are included (no measures of victimless crimes drugs, white collar crimes) Limited info on the characteristics of the offenders gender, background. Interview process limitations (ability to recall incidents accurately after some time), language barriers, legal terms. The correlates crime are very similar across all three major methods (victimization surveys, self-reports and official data)