Police Foundations LAW120 Chapter Notes - Chapter 2: General Social Survey, Substantive Law, Procedural Law
29 May 2016
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The law in canada is procedural and substantive. Procedural law - the law that guide us as to how the criminal justice system works. Substantive law - the law that defines which actions are prohibited. The uniform crime reporting survey (ucr: a census of crime collected by police services across canada. The crime severity index: the general social survey: victimization. Each police service is provided with the same crime categories and definitions. The data in the ucr represents crimes which have been reported to and validated by the police. The gss is a national survey conducted every five years which gives a profile of the victims of crime based on self-reported data of all criminal incidents (not just those that were reported to the police) According to the 2009 general social survey the most common form of violent crime was physical assault. The funnel shape is used to describe how crimes are processed within the criminal justice system.
