SOC 2760 Chapter Notes - Chapter 10: Organized Crime, Sentenced, Multivariate Analysis

• School: University of Guelph
• Department: Sociology
• Course: SOC 2760
• Professor: Rob Shearer

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This document contains notes on the following: unit 10 (courselink, chapter 5, the criminal justice response to homicide. Explaining the changing nature of homicide clearance in canada. Courselink - unit 10: responses to homicide part i. Clearing homicides in canada: the role of the police: at the global level, the homicide clearance rate is slightly above 60 percent, meaning that police are able to identify an accused in the majority of cases. As a result, homicide prevention (often subsumed under violence prevention) has become o more common in the past few decades. Dawson"s ontario homicide and justice initiative: 40 years of homicide in ontario the courts might respond differently to homicides, depending on particular case o characteristics race/ethnicity of those involved, and so on. Reading 10. 1 - explaining the changing nature of homicide clearance in canada by t. trussler. Clearance rates have been decreasing since the late 1960s.