CRIM 210 Chapter Notes - Chapter 3: Visible Minority, Assault, Carrington Family
8 May 2018
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Chapter 3 – The Fats of Youth Cie
Measuring Youth Crime
- Common source of information: media
- Other major source: social-control agencies
- Other involve population or field research.
- 2 most common surveys are victimization surveys (if someone themselves have been
victimized) and self-epot sueys people’s ioleet i deliuet o iial ats
- Surveys and Field Research are better measurements of crime than Control Agencies
Sources and What They Tell Us About Youth Crime
The Media
o The information can be misleading and contribute to public fear
o Crime waves can be seen as media waves
Police Statistics
o Information provided to the police by complaints or from their own
observations.
o Crimes cleared by the police refer to crimes are crimes that the police know they
have a suspect and are prepared to process case in court.
o YCJA was implemented and police statistics became available
o Police statistics are reported as general indexes, crime index, property index, and
other index
o UCR statistics tell us that crime has increased and decreased, technically
decreased now.
Court Statistics
o Kept by individual courts and yield less information than police statistics
o They provide information on the offenders and their offences
Self Report Surveys
o Adiisteed to a shool’s populatio ad the hilde fill out this suey that
helps determine what time of crime and which individuals are a part of it.
o Official records misrepresent the middle class people, usually pinpointing crimes
towards the lower class and visible minorities.
o Criminal behaviour is way more widespread than it appears.
Victimization Surveys
o If an individual has ever been victimized, they can report it on the survey
o They a’t easue itiless ies like dug offees
o Victimization surveys can be influenced by stereotypes of criminals
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Document Summary
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