PSYC39H3 Chapter Notes - Chapter 7: General Social Survey, Inter-Rater Reliability, Pearson Product-Moment Correlation Coefficient
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Psyc39 - ch. 7 violent offending: general violence and homicide. Human aggression = any behaviour directed towards another individual that is carried out with the proximate (immediate) intent to cause harm; Perpetrator must believe that the behaviour will harm the target, and that the target is motivated to avoid the behaviour (anderson and bushman 2002: 28). Violence = aggression that has extreme harm as its goal (death) Violent crime 1/8 criminal incidents in canada. Rate of violent crime reported to the police (uniform crime reporting survey) in. 2007 930 per 100 000 people; decreased since early 1990s. Lowest rate was in ontario; highest was in saskatchewan (2007) Robbery is often considered a violent offence because it implied threat of violence; robbery rate = 90 per 100 000 people in 2007. Pei had the lowest rate of robbery and manitoba had the highest. Robbery rates decreased overall, armed robbery decreased but robbery without a weapon has increased slightly.
