SOCI 2P61 Chapter 4: Counting Crime.docx
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Administrative record: a collection of information about individual cases: levels of aggregation: how data are to be combined. (city level, provincial, national?, data element: specification about what, exactly is to be collected, counting procedure: consensus on how to count units and data elements, canadian center for justice statistics: a division of statistics canada, formed in 1981, with a mandate to collect national data on crime and justice, dark figure of crime: the amount of crime that is unreported or unknown, victimization survey: a random sample of the population in which people are asked to recall and describe their own experience of being a victim of crime, sample: a group of elements selected in a systematic manner from the population of interest (people, offender, inmates, self report study: a method for measuring crime involving the distribution of a detailed questionnaire to a sample of people, asking them whether they have committed a crime in a particular period of time.