SOCI 388 Chapter Notes - Chapter 2: Aboriginal Peoples In Canada, Stepfamily, Statistical Correlations Of Criminal Behaviour
27 Oct 2015
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A history of crime statistics: likelihood of someone committing a crime declines with age, thomas malthus, the human population would grow exponentially over the following decades or centuries, leading to a shortage of needed resources, especially food. Morality undergoes seasonal variation: ----> guery and quetelet formed the historical basis for what has been called the statistical school of criminology. Sources of crime statistics: crime statistics in canada are reported in two major surveys, the uniform crime reporting survey (ucr, victimization survey (conducted through the general social surveys) Box 2. 1 page 44 - the canadian centre for justice statistics (ccjs) Introduced to measure changes in the severity of crime from year to year. Index assigns a weight to each offence: records offences cleared by charge or otherwise and rates of crime. Limitations of self-report studies: accuracy is largely predicated on the honesty and forthrightness of the respondent o.
