Sociology 2266A/B Chapter 4: chapter 4 soc 2266

• School: Western University
• Department: Sociology
• Course: Sociology 2266A/B
• Professor: Lisa Lyons

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Sunday, october 4, 2015 chapter 4- soc 2266 counting crime controversies over counting crimes. Methodology: refers to the study or critique of methods. Reliability: identi es one of the standards (another being validity) against which the tools used to measure concepts are judged. reliability refers to consistency over time. Validity: the extent to which a tool or instrument actually measures the concept the researcher claims to be interested in and not something else. Crime rate: criminologists calculate crime rates by dividing the amount of crime by the population size and multiplying 100,000 this produces the standard rate per. 100,000 ; u can also calculate rates per million if its a less frequent offence. Have to question if the methods and technologies involved in gathering statistics produce the same counts and do the statistics collected count what they purport to count. Each police report is led and sent to the canadian centre for justice statistics (ccjs), a division of statistics canada.