CRI205H1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Procedural Justice, Uniform Crime Reports, Content Analysis
28 Aug 2018
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The vast majority of canadians believe that violent crime has increased significantly over the past decade. Fear of crime is increasing among canadians: most canadians think that their own neighbourhood is relatively safe, most think that violent crime is not increasing in their own neighbourhood. Measurement strategies for criminologists: official crime data. Survey data: court data, corrections data, historical analysis, content analysis, case studies. Official data: uniform crime reports (ucr data) Interpol statistics: coroner"s reports, world health organization data. More detailed info on offender and victim characteristics, offender-victim relationship, time and location of crime, etc. Three important terms: 1) crime counts; 2) percentage change and 3) crime rates. Crime rate = number of crimes (the count) divided by population size x 100,000. Crime is a contribution of many social and economic factors. Factors in someone"s life can be a factor that leads them to crime. Violent crime has significantly went down since 2003 in canada.
