CC200 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Victimless Crime, Official Statistics, Sexual Assault
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Age of responsibility: younger people are not capable of knowing right & wrong, offending with intent. The age of responsibility is 12 according to the law, and at this age arrests begin and increase through adolescence. Early arrests are usually for property crimes and then they grow more violent. Sources of data on youth crime: official statistics: collected from social control agencies in the justice system (police, courts, and corrections) by stats canada. Uniform crime reporting (ucr) police reporting on crime that is uniform across districts, started in 1961. In the usa, this information is collected by the fbi. Crime is reported as a rate for the sake of standardization (unaffected by population changes). Criemnumber x 100,00 reported as per 100,000 people: The ucr statistics are gathered for every year from. Some people are more likely to move through the funnel and actually be sentenced: youth and indigenous people especially. st st to december 31 .
