WDW101Y1 Lecture Notes - Visible Minority, Property Crime, Official Statistics
19 May 2012
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Main source of information on crimes in canada is. Uniform crime reporting system began in canada in 1962. What is being measured: crimes known by the police to have taken place founded crimes, crimes police have investigated and found to be true not necessarily lead to a conviction. Other crime things illegal under criminal code but don"t fall into those two categories, includes embezzlement. Some alleged crime does not appear on these ucr records. Dark figure of crime that haven"t been discovered by police. A person may be charged with three or four offences but only the most serious one goes on record. The longest maximum sentence for all offences that have taken place in criminal incident it is that that holds longest sentence normally violent crimes trump property and other crimes. But if a violent crime is committed with another offence, violent crime is the only one that will show up other types of crime are underestimated.
