CRIM 1650 Chapter Notes - Chapter 4: Uniform Crime Reports, Data Element
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Most commonly used measure of crime: the uniform crime report system (ucr) Most police departments send data from each incident to the ccjs. Canadian centre for justice statistics = division of statistics canada. Mandate to collect national data on crime and justice. Developed and improved the adult criminal court survey. As the reliability of a statistical measure increases, its validity as a count of crime decreases. Administrative record: collection of information about individual cases. Levels of aggression: how data is to be combined - city, provincial, national data. Data element: specification about what exactly is to be collected. Counting procedure: consensus on how to count units and data elements. Canada incarcerates people at a much higher rate than most western eu nations but lower than the us. Problem of counting crime: unknown number of crimes, dark figure. Ucr: published based on a standardization set of procedures for collecting and reporting crime info.