CRIM 1650 Lecture Notes - Joel Beck, Serial Killer, Victimless Crime

• School: York University
• Department: Criminology
• Course: CRIM 1650
• Professor: James Williams

Document Summary

Self-report studies: phone surveys or written questionnaires asking individuals about their past involvement in various forms of criminal behaviour, valuable source of information for victimless crimes such as rug use, independent of police and citizen reporting practices. Limitations: inaccurate or incomplete reporting, reporting bias, no independent measure if validity. Patterns of crime in canada: crime rate comparable to what it was in 1973, majority of crimes are non-violent. 2, 5 million code offences in canada 12% are violent, 48 % property and the rest is other. Gender: equally at risk, except sexual assault. Age: personal victimization; decreases when getting older. Activities; more time outside at night the greater the risk of being victimized. House hold income: lower than 50,000- risk of victimization. The vast majority are not the serious violent dangerous crime that fit the public"s idea, minor incidents involving neither serious crimes nor extensive injury.