CRIM 101 Chapter Notes - Chapter 3: Motor Vehicle Theft, Uniform Crime Reports, General Social Survey
22 Mar 2015
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Ucr, which is based solely on police reports: the dark figure of recording was described by paul and. Uniform crime report: the ucr is based solely on crimes that are recorded by the police, ucr indicates that crime has been decreasing almost annually since the early 1990s. General social survey: gss (a victimization survey) tries to get representative sample of victimization, gss indicates that victimization rates are going up (or more recently, staying the same). Homicide as a situated transaction: hannah scott warns in chapter 5 that we should approach the concept of victim precipitation with caution, however, in a study of 70 homicides (murders) in one. F there is a higher likelihood of crimes being detected and recorded when the police engage in what is known as reactive policing. F the crime swap describes the deviant exchange, where criminals may swap one criminal service for another (e. g. , exchanging drugs for prostitution).
