SOC 110 Lecture Notes - Lecture 20: Uniform Crime Reports, Bigfoot, Property Crime
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Just because it"s deviant doesn"t mean it"s criminal. Behaviors ex: clothing, stay at home dads. Beliefs ex: bigfoot, ufo"s, aliens, religious beliefs (atheism) Condition/characteristic ex: physical disability (cheer with prosthetic leg), teenage pregnancy, Relative: varies across societies (tight pants are illegal in foreign countries, fluid, perceptions change over time (smoking in public places) Seriousness varies: violate folkways: backpack on front side rather than back side, violate mores/laws: murder, shoplifting. Crime violation of norms that have been written into a law. Property crime: burglary, theft, arson, vandalism, trespassing. Crime was at an all-time high in 1994 because of the presence of: Intro of crack cocaine: accessibility of firearms, gangs. Official data: ucr: (uniform crime report) police departments submit all arrest statistics every year to the fbi then the data is compiled into a ucr document. Ucr measures 2 different types of data: part 1 crimes: property & violent crimes, part 2 crimes: all other crimes (white collar crimes)
