CC100 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Clearance Rate
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Policing sensitive: some crimes more severe than others so police are more attentive to more dangerous crimes, more procedure now domestic violence treated more seriously. Definition sensitive: homosexuality considered a crime, however now things are changing, laws are changing constantly based on the values and beliefs of the communities, currently prostitution law under review although legal highly dangerous. Media sensitive: juvenile crimes, more violent crimes. Ucr is collected by canadian centre for justice stats is a branch of statistics. Canada which only focuses on crime statistics (which is further broken down in units) Mandatory for police to report each month. Takes a summary of all the numbers can be wrong as crime rate increases from east to west coast (therefore pei has the lowest crime rate but stats may say otherwise) Incidence of crime the number of crimes in a specific time period (raw figures)
