SOCC30H3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: C. W. Jefferys Collegiate Institute, Forensic Science, Iceberg
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Counting crime (police reported crime statistics aka crime known to the police") Socc30 lecture 3 notes: reporting crime (and reasons for not doing so, detecting crime (and the failure to do so) The official count of crime is always an underestimate of the amount of crime occurring in a jurisdiction (the dark figure of crime"). Additional notes: two ways to learn about crime: through questionnaires and interviews and through observation/ethnography. Because of mass media, we believe that the police detect huge amounts of crime. The police are reliant on the members of the public to report crimes they"re aware of either crimes they"ve been victims of or crimes they"ve witnessed. There is more crime occurring than you officially get to know of iceberg picture: tip of iceberg is what we actually see and know and the big part of the iceberg under the water is unseen.
