CRIM 1650 Lecture Notes - Motor Vehicle Theft, Plastic Surgery, Juvenile Delinquency

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

Document Summary

Many white collar crimes aren"t in the criminal code and as such aren"t measured as. (ex: one individual died as a result of complication of a liposuction in 2007; the surgeon was not charged with crime but did lose her licence. ) Youth crime is included in ucr: crime rate = 100,000/population x number of incidents, crime severity index (2009) The more you classify as a crime the more is viewed as criminal. Drugs are not in the criminal code, they have their own act and thus not included in. Developed in 1960s, which is why usually all crime rate changes are recorded starting "62 each individual police force collects up their crime incidents and forwards them to the stats centers (compile them) Police must determine that an incident that is reported to them is indeed defined as a crime (this is distinct fr.