SOC 1500 Study Guide - Final Guide: Differential Association, Juvenile Delinquency, Community Policing
25 Oct 2012
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Official records: police stats: uniform crime report (only counts serious crimes), crime severity. Index: judicial stats: canadian centre for justice statistics (ccjs, correctional stats: csc, department of justice. Crime rates are report-sensitive (feeling that nothing will be done, embarrassed, fear) Crime rates are policing sensitive (zero tolerance, lack of resources) Crime rates are definition sensitive (changes in law cause definition of crimes to change. Crime rates are media sensitive (media focuses on events that cause people to become enraged ex: sept. 11th) Overdramatize crime: crime waves/moral panics, over-reporting violent crime (police focus on more violent crime to please the media and public, neglecting white collar crime. Publishes national crime figures once a year. Rarely put crime stories in statistical context. Criminal behaviour is decontextualized from the structured nature of society. Media tends to represent the unusual as the usual. Crime related to morality and its decline. Pathologised: insane gripped by biological forces beyond their control .
