CRM/LAW C167 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Clinical Urine Tests, Homicide

• School: UC-Irvine
• Department: Criminology, Law and Society
• Course: CRM/LAW C167
• Professor: Richard Mc Cleary

Document Summary

Ucr are biased; ncvs is biased; 911 calls = not biased. If you know how to ask and are careful, turns out to be pretty good. Police become aware of drug crime only when they go out and look for. Sherman, garton, berdner (911 calls) (cid:1) (cid:1) (cid:1) Warner and pierce = argued that it was unbiased (cid:1) (cid:1) (cid:1) (cid:1) (cid:1) (cid:1) (cid:1) (cid:1) Rap sheets stand for nothing (cid:1) (cid:1) it very, very vigorously (cid:1) If you hire homicide detective, it goes down, not up (cid:1) (cid:1) (cid:1) (cid:1) (cid:1) Hair vs. urine: random sample; participants from jails; 120 cities (cid:1) (cid:1) (cid:1) (cid:1) (cid:1) (cid:1) (cid:1) (cid:1) (cid:1) (cid:1) (cid:1) (cid:1) (cid:1, urine test and hair test for any drug. Self reports are very cheap; urinalysis are quite expensive. False negative = no haven"t used it but they actually have. Opiates usually heroin; heroin = no bias; cocaine = bias.