CRM 102 Chapter 4: CRM chapter 4
14 Feb 2017
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3 brand types of criminal justice stats; statistics about crime and criminals, stats about the criminal justice system and its response to crime and stats about the perceptions of crime an criminal justice. De nitions : consensus about how to de ne what is being counted there is a good deal of discretion regarding de nitions common de nitions are essential depending on how the terms are de ned you can in ate or de ate the statistics. Counting procedures : consensus on how to count units and elements do we count six offences for different incidences or one offender who went on a spree. Canadian criminal justice statistics a division of stats canada formed in 1981 with a mandate to collect national data on crime and justice don"t confuse criminal with prisoner. How much crime : dark gure of crime: the amount of crime that is unreported or unknown.
