CRM_J 101 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: White-Collar Crime, Social Class, Homicide
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There is no uniform crime distribution: regional differences urban, suburban, rural communities, weekly and daily lumps (hot spots, cycles of the moon??? (werewolves) No uniform commission of crime: aging out, crime is lumpy few commit a lot, crime is different by age, gender, race, immigrant or native. Us: social class standing opportunity differences. Be nice to know on how to avoid being victimized. Useful to assess claims made by police and politicians. Give the media something to write about. Ucr, part 1 collects data on 8 serious crimes; part ii are all other crimes agencies. Ucr is published by the fbi based on reports from other police. Part i: either serious crimes: four property: burglary, theft, car thief, arson (about 92%, four personal: homicide, sexual assault, assault, robbery (about 8%) Part ii: everything else: drugs, prostitution, fraud, white collar crime,
