WDW101Y1 Lecture Notes - Uniform Crime Reports, Homicide, Main Source

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22 Sep 2012

School

UTSG

Department

Woodsworth College Courses

Course

WDW101Y1

Professor

Scot Wortley

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Lec 2 sept/17 measuring crime and criminal justice. Individual crimes comes almost entirely from the media. Interest should be shown in the long-term trends (larger pattern) - we must focus on different types of data. There is a feeling that crime is getting worse/increasing, and communities are more dangerous. Despite this, most people feel safe in their own communities; and crime is instead only increasing out there . Belief that toronto is canada"s most dangerous city (the media blows up crimes that occur in major cities: political element to tragic situations eg. police using the danzig shooting to get more funding. Corrections data (number/reasons people are being admitted to correctional facilities) Content analysis (document analysis: comparing current newspaper crime sections to. 1970, how language has changed through past decades) Two of the most used methods of crime measurement: official data. Interpol statistics police statistics are collected from all nations to provide international comparisons.

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6. (1 point) Tara lives in an economy where all adults either either work or go to university Those without a university education earn a salary of $40,000 per year. Those with a university education earn a salary of $65,000. University education lasts 3 years. Tuition is $30,000 per year, and Tara has access to interest-free student loans. Assume that Tara is an adult for 10 years. As an economist, give Tara advice on whether she should attend university before working. Bonus Question 1. (1 point) What, if anything, do you expect to happen to the num- ber of men who report having same-sex sexual orientation (or report being in a same-sex relationship or report having same-sex sexual desires) when HIV/AIDS becomes more preva- lent? What, if anything, do you expect to happen to the number of women who report having same-sex sexual orientation or report being in a same-sex relationship or report having same-sex sexual desires) when HIV/AIDS becomes more prevalent? Answer to these questions as an economist. Focus on explaining how and why changes in sexual behavior in response to HIV/AIDS becoming more prevalent might be different for men vs. women. Explanation should be 1-3 sentences. Bonus Question 2. (1 point) Following the murder-kidnapping of 12-year old Polly Klaas in 1993, California and a number of other states in the U.S. have passed so called three- strikes-laws. A three-strikes-law mandates that a person who commits a third criminal act to be jailed for the rest of his/her life without the possibility of parole. Importantly, these three-strikes-laws do not distinguish between more dangerous criminal acts such as murders and bank robberies and less dangerous crimes such as a smoking pot and shoplifting. Instead, anyone who is convicted of three criminal acts in total is to be jailed for the rest of his/her life following the third conviction. The intended effect of implementing such three-strikes-laws was to increase the penalties for crimes of any type in order to deter criminals from committing crimes. However, evidence suggests that the implementation of three-strikes-laws has increased the number of dangerous criminal acts (murders, bank robberies, etc) that have been committed. Why have the three-strikes-laws possibly led to an increase in the number of dangerous criminal acts? Explain (in 1-2 sentences).

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Neda operates a small convenience store in a southern town that has a high tourist draw. After several years of operating the store, Neda has decided to no longer sell tobacco products of any kind because of her belief that they are dangerous and lead to addictions. After a few months, several other stores in the community also decided to stop selling tobacco products. Their rationale has more to do with lawsuits and criminal penalties when employees sell these products to minors. Within one year, all community stores have decided to ban the sale of tobacco products. The town has become known as "smokeless," and residents who make a living on tourism are afraid that this label will hurt tourism and their businesses. As more and more communities are prohibiting smoking in public places, this sample case study has been a real situation in many communities throughout the nation. As a result, there should be plenty of factual material available to reinforce your findings and conclusions.

1. Who are the stakeholders affected by the stores' decisions? Do the stores, as businesses, have an obligation to the broader community to not hurt tourism? Is Neda placing her own personal ethics ahead of business ethics? Is there a difference? Why, and how?

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The city council of Pine Bluffs is considering increasing the number of police in an effort to reduce crime. Before making a final decision, the council asked the chief of police to survey other cities of similar size to determine the relationship between the number of police and the number of crimes reported. The chief gathered the following sample information.

City Police Number of Crimes

Oxford 19 19

Holgate 21 10

Starksville 21 15

Carey 16 21

Danville 26 9

Whistler 14 25

Athens 29 11

Woodville 23 11

A) Determine the regression equation.

B) Estimate the number of crimes in a city with 28 police officers.

C) Interpret the regression equation: For each policeman added, the number of crimes goes (up/down) by one.

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