CRJS 1001 Chapter Notes - Chapter 2: Homicide, Deeper Understanding, Participant Observation
25 Oct 2016
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Ex: breaking and entering that also involved an assault, the. Ucr will only count the assault and ignore the breaking and entering charge as they take the mso. They do account for up to 4 violations per incident, but many times the police detachments don"t send in this data because of its phased implantation (the process of changing from one system to another) Number of police reported crimes 100 000 population = crime rate. 2011 homicide rate is: 598 homicides = 1. 78 per 100 000 population. Homicide in canada is considerably lower than the usa but are higher than. More serious crimes are assigned higher weights, less serious offences, lower weights. As a result when all crimes are included, more serious offences have a greater impact on changes in. Prcsi (police-reported crime severity index) tracks changes in the: (cid:498)in the prcsi, each type of offence is assigned a weight derived from the index. (cid:499)
