CRJU 20423 Chapter Notes - Chapter 3: Numeracy, High Visibility, Social Constructionism
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The statistics of crime waves: arguments about how crime changes over time, whether we think about crime rates as higher (or lower) depends on the comparison point. Statistics in the raw: a relatively small number of very high visibility crimes can occur within a rather short period of time. The data are submitted to the fbi and made available to criminal justice agencies and other interested users nationally on an annual basis: the other major data source is what is known as the victimization survey. It attempts to generate counts of crime by asking people directly about their experiences during some specified period of crime (national crime victimization. Survey): the production of crime data must be understood as a social activity, statistical crime waves come and go at least in part because of the manner in which these organizational process change over time.
