CRIM 101 Chapter Notes - Chapter 3: Sexual Assault, Property Crime, Peer Pressure
17 Feb 2016
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3. 1- understand how crimes are classified and identify the major categories of crime classified by the uniform crime report surveys (ucr) and the major crime rate trends in canada. The uniform crime report surveys (ucr) classify crimes into the following 6 categories: Of the 1. 9 million criminal code incidents reported: 3. 2- describe the offences classified as violent crime and apply various theories that explain why people commit acts of violence. Violent crime incidents include: homicide, attempted murder, assault, sexual assault, robbery, use of firearms, kidnapping and abduction, criminal harassment, uttering threats, look to socialization and cultural factors as explanations for acts of violence. Social learning theories: assume that people learn how to behave by modelling themselves after others they have observed. Individual responsibility perspective: it is the psychological makeup of each person that determines the way in which observed behaviour is absorbed, processed and acted upon. Biological theories: question whether certain individuals are predisposed to violence.
