SOC 1200 Lecture Notes - Lecture 29: Official Records Of The American Civil War, Visible Minority

• School: University of Manitoba
• Department: Sociology
• Course: SOC 1200
• Professor: Susan Miller

Document Summary

Show who has been charged with what, who has been convicted: how valid is this technique? . Give us good indicated about sheer volume of criminal activity : estimation. Tells us where and when they are likely to occur. These records can only reflect what the officials know . What they know becomes known to them in 2 ways: . Police detection (drive through neighborhood and find crime) The actual rates of crime may be very underestimated . If the officials didn"t know about it, it might as well have not happened. Public reporting and detection may be much higher in some areas than others, and during certain periods of time. Official records show that there is a higher rate of crime in cities than in rural areas . Level of report-ability is somewhat higher in smaller/rural areas. Cities have a much higher rate of detectability. We have far more law enforcement personnel per capita.