CRIM 1650 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Motor Vehicle Theft, Uniform Crime Reports, Plastic Surgery

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

Document Summary

Fraud, domestic issues, and abuse are usually unreported. However, property offences like, robbery and grand theft auto are usually most reported: law enforcement practices (1. the process in which a police officer defines something as a crime and an issue with the victim. Why do all the paperwork if conviction won"t happen. Only 25% of 911 calls are forwarded to the police. Which neighbourhood these police are being sent into, police activity. Police want to under report crimes to make it seem they are doing their job, budget time, specific crimes are more important and actually require budget: sensitivity to changes in legal definitions (ex. 1983 rape law was broadened to sexual assault, also men being charged with raping wife while before it wasn"t seen as a crime. Also, in 1990 infant shaking were define as homicide, increasing the rates of homicide (rates can change based on changing definitions: patterns of offenders behaviour (ex.