01:920:222 Lecture 3: patterns in crimes and white collar crimes
29 Jan 2019
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Clearance rate - percentage of reported crimes cleared by arrest or other exceptional means. Murder has best clearance rate vs. motor vehicle theft has worst. Violent crimes generally have better clearance rate than property crimes. Murder is much more serious as a crime, so they"ll put more resources to solving it than property crimes that. Police alter crime rates for their own benefit are minor compared to murder. Report more crimes to justify more funding. Report fewer crimes to make themselves look more effective; attract business, tourists by: Different definitions of crime in different cities. Problems with measuring crimes involving proactive police work vs reactive police work. Reactive example: get a call about a murder and police goes on a hunt to find the murderer. Ucr undercounts or omits costly or dangerous crimes committed by powerful and affluent. Ucr says that street criminals are mostly low income and minorities.
