SOC212H1 Lecture : Measuring crime & Deviance

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Problems with acquiring crim and deviance data: subject of inquiry is deliberately hidden (ppl don"t advertise their criminality, try to have it remain hidden. Certain deviance is public like punks/skinheads other kinds are not. No b/c they are the guys caught and are the worse armed robbers) Uniform crime reports (ucr: - standardized counts of crimes known to police, - national stats about crime rates, - event/population size x 100, 000. Insurance, more security systems: increase in violent crime (serious assault on slide graph), crime severity index has been going down for decades, violent crime severity index had a bit of peak in. 2006 and then declines again: (not tested on that) Victimization surveys: have two measures for this, 1) direct measures, economic loss, physical injury, property damage at the hands of another (since not everyone reports gets around that)

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