WDW101Y1 Chapter Notes -Uniform Crime Reports, Crime Survey For England And Wales, Young Offenders Act
15 Sep 2013
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Chapter 3 the nature and extent of crime. Report-sensitive crimes: crimes that are sensitive to victims reporting them if a victim of sexual assault, for example, does not report it, then it is unlikely that police will know about it. Policing-sensitive crimes: crimes sensitive to law enforcement drug crime, for example, is proactively investigated by police, otherwise many drug offences would not be detected. Definition-sensitive crimes: crimes sensitive to legislative activity gambling, for example, has steadily been decriminalized by a loosening of criminal sanctions around gaming. Media-sensitive crimes: crime that is sensitive to media attention youth crime, for example, when covered in the media increases public concern, which increases reports to police, which makes the news. Uniform crime report (ucr): an aggregate census that is based on reports from police forces across canada; the official basis for criminological research in canada.
